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I want to die in my own way. It's my illness, my death, my choice. This is what saying yes means.
Jenny Downham
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Jenny Downham
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: January 1
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Inner and Outer London
Dies
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Every breath, every heartbeat, was one less until maybe things stopped hurting this much.
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Her skin tasted expensive.
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Death straps me to the hospital bed, claws its way onto my chest and sits there.I didn't know it would hurt this much. I didn't know that everything good that's ever happened in my life would be emptied out by it.
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I'm me and you're you, and all of them out there are them. And we're all so different and equally unimportant.
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Keep breathing. Just keep doing it. It's easy. In and out.
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I didn't understand that when you make love, you actually do MAKE love. Stir things. Affect each other. The breath that escapes from me is dazzled. He breathes it in with a gasp.
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She'll understand what I already know - that death surrounds us all. And it tastes like metal between your teeth.
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I miss him as soon as he goes. When he isn't with me, I think I made him up.
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I've always wanted to be a cat. Warm and domesticated when you want to be, wild when you don't.
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I made a fatal error thinking he could save me.
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It's as if a child with a brush and too much enthusiasm has been set free with a tin of black paint inside me.
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Was this love? Because it hurt. It was like a bit of glass stuck somewhere important--his heart or his head, and it was throbbing.
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a little bird moves a mountain of sand one grain at a time it picks up one grain every million years and when the mountain has been moved the bird puts it all back again and that's how long eternity is and that's a very long time to be dead
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Parents don't know their children at all. No one knows anyone, in fact.
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If you want a girl to like you, you have to listen like a woman and love like a man.
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Life is made up of a series of moments, each one a journey to the end.
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Perhaps I'm dead. Perhaps this is all it will be. The living will carry on in their world – touching, walking. And I'll continue in this empty world, tapping soundlessly on the glass between us.
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No, really. I free you.' I don't want to be free.
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I said I wouldn't leave her.
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The inside of the door is glossy white. A total re-paint. I touch it with my fingers, but it stays the same. It's so bright it makes the room waver at the edges. Every few years we disappear.
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