<a href="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/before-I-diemay16.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-3331" src="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/before-I-diemay16-200x150.jpg" alt="before-I-die(may16)" width="200" height="150" /></a>At risk of being morbid I thought I would remind everyone that next week is <a href="http://www.stbarnabashospice.co.uk/News/Article/219/lincolnshire-hospice-to-create-countys-biggest-bucket-list" target="_blank">Dying Matters week</a>. There have been several articles on the radio recently about our modern approach to death and how we have come to rely on science and medicine to keep us alive as long as possible. As a consequence we have lost touch with death and how best to deal with it.

From my own recent experience I know Jane and I rarely talked about her impending death because she didn't want to depress me and I didn't want to upset her. After her death there wasn't a list of her wishes, what she wanted her funeral to be like. Thankfully I instinctively knew from 45 years of being best friends what she would have wanted and I think from the responses of friends and family it was appropriate.

As you will know from my posts I'm still struggling with Jane's death but next week I shall be evaluating my life - what's on my bucket list and how I want my funeral to be arranged (not that I'm planning on dying anytime soon). It's worth thinking about, if not for yourself but for your love ones...