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.

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.