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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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Jenny Downham
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: January 1
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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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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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Statement: A girl and a boy jump into a river. The boy swims over to the girl and says, God, it's cold. Question: What's the probability they will kiss?
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Every seven years our bodies change, every cell. Every seven years, we disappear.
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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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when I was four I almost fell down the shaft of a tin mine and when I was five the car rolled over on the motorway and when I was seven we went on holiday and the gas ring blew out in the caravan and nobody noticed I've been dying all my life
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. . . my bones they'll burn or bury. It'll be my death.
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Moments. All gathering towards this one.
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I lean back on the pillows and look at the corners of the room. When I was a kid, I always wanted to live on the ceiling - it looked so clean and uncluttered, like the top of a cake.
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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.
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I'm here. Soon I won't be. Zoey's baby is here. Its pulse tick-ticking. Soon it won't be. And when Zoey comes out of that room, having signed on the dotted line, she'll be different. She'll understand what I already know- that death surrounds us all. And it tastes like metal between you teeth.
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As an actor I worked for seven years with a community theater company based in London. We used improvisation techniques to take stories to young people who wouldn't normally have access to them - in prisons, hospitals, young offender's units, youth clubs and housing estates.
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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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It's a shame i can't be there myself - i like parties. Text me if you think of any good hymns!
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Maybe I’ll come back as somebody else. I’ll be the wild-haired girl Adam meets in his first week at university. ‘Hi, are you on the horticultural course as well?
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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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Nurses never tell you what they know. They're hired for their cheeriness and the thickness of their hair. They need to look alive and healthy, to give the patients something to aim for.
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That slow smile again. I love that smile! DId I think he was ugly just now? No, his face is transformed.
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