Sophie Duffy

In fact, my mother is so busy screaming, she doesn’t seem to have noticed that I am already here. But I am. I have arrived in style, waving a banner, heralding my birth.

how far can tragedies be avoided?

Stupid, perhaps. Unexpected, definitely.

littered with fatal comedy banana skins

accidents happen because they are beyond our control.
Or are they?

Should you need an operation or

What would we do, if we were in that situation?

mitigation of future ones.

After all, everyone dies, so why do we resist the very idea of death?

don’t want to lose the people we love because living without them is hard, all day, every day, hard. And nor do we want to leave our loved ones behind because how can they possibly live without us? We believe it easier to push aside such thoughts.