Stories from: Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham

My brother Philip died aged 32 – of muscular dystrophy. He was cremated. Some months later the Tall Ships came

I had been with my grandfather as a teenager when he died in our house after us nursing him over

My 2 year old nieces’s comment as we were scattering her Grandma and Grandpa’s ashes: ‘no he’s not in there

Regarding ‘assumptions’ and make up. This resounded! My father died suddenly and had been taken away for a postmortem by

I had a wonderful experience with a class of reception children that I taught. One of them had lost her

My mum, my beautiful mum had a devastating stroke whist I was on holiday in Cyprus – the longest flight

Death as an acknowledged event – accepted, natural, inevitable, unknowable, mysterious, mundane, ordinary. But because we don’t talk about it,

My dad died suddenly in an accident – my children were involved in his funeral without ever having experienced a

We very recently buried my dear friend Kate and she wanted ‘the cheapest’ funeral. We by-passed the ‘usual’, bought the

We who love are burdened by death. The dead however lie easy.

Our daughter aged 9 had a pet hamster called Chocky. When Chocky died we cremated him in a small loaf

Any of me that can be used for organ donation is to be used then I shall be cremated in