Stories from: The Village, Brighton

 

Secrets and lies

A member of the audience rang me up to share this story. How do you cope with a death when

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Liver sausage sandwiches

My father died unexpectedly on a holiday in Greece. The day after he died my mother and I were told

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Graveyards

Thank you for taking this topic out of the ‘dark zone’. I am from Germany, my parents have a company

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Over too soon

I recently went to the Cremation of a loved one who was 92 years old. The service was over and

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Chinese Whispers

One of my 90 year old mother’s favourite stories! A family whose garden backed on to the local cemetery had

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Abandoned Ashes

In St Louis in the US cremations happen privately involving the undertakers. I arranged my aunt’s funeral and her ashes

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Sleep with the fishes

My parents made burial arrangements long before they died. They had moved to St Croix in the Virgin Islands, where

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Writing a will

A willwriter told me that when she sits down with most people to start planning their wills, they say “If

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Say goodbye

I didn’t go to see my friend when he was diagnosed with cancer. I didn’t want to visit him when

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