An elderly woman has died at 87 and she had dementia! Why aren’t we told this kind of thing can happen? At the age of 87 and suffering from dementia, the world says goodbye to Margaret Thatcher. Reaction to her death have been mixed. At the one end we have the sadness and grief of […]
Category: Death
“I’m an Atheist…thank God.”
Dave Allen, on God, death and the church has always been a source of inspiration and amusement to me. I can sometimes be accused of having an unhealthy obsession with death. ‘But we will all die’ I will say. ‘Yes but I don’t want to think about it’ comes the reply. That’s fair enough, who […]
Death and doughnuts
Back at the beginning of December The time of year when I was more man and less mince pie! – I saw a poster advertising an exhibition at the Wellcome Collection, entitled ‘Death a Self-portrait’. Walking round the exhibits, I was struck by the reoccurring image of the skull and skeleton. Yep, that was death, […]
Queen Victoria or Ena Sharples?
Is Death to be embraced or should you spend the rest of your life in mourning? For those less grey haired than me, Ena Sharples was an early stallwart and busy body on Coronation Street in the 1960’s. Think Dot Cotton from Eastenders. Queen Victoria – who was never on Coronation Street but coincidentally plays […]