Today I did something tremendously unusual. I went to visit a professional who attended to my bodily needs - and this visit did not involve any pain, it did not involve any needles, it did not involve anyone saying, “Just a little prick!” and then hurting me horribly, it did not involve any IVs or [...]

Wow. I wrote the Silence of the Dying blog, got a great weight off my chest, and then walked off and forgot about it.

Since then everything has snow-balled and I have had an amazing response - on here, on Facebook, and via email. People have linked to it and talked about it, newspapers have been [...]

Many years ago I did an hour long interview on Adelaide radio (with Jeremy Cordeaux, I think, but my memory may be wrong). The interview was supposed to promote one of my recent publications, but for some reason we quickly strayed onto the subject of death and dying, and there we stayed for the entire [...]

So there I was, sitting in a cab in the middle of Hobart this morning about 7 am, gazing with some noticeable jaw-drop at the skyscraper cruise ship sitting the other side of the road, when both the cabbie and I went, in unison, “Oh my God!!!”

Sitting on the top deck was a MASSIVE television [...]

Thank you for allowing me my rant. I really, really needed to do that. As Juliet said in the comments, everyone deals with cancer differently, everyone suffers a different kind and grade of cancer, everyone has a different prognosis, and everyone should be allowed the grace of dealing with it as they want, not as [...]