![]() ![]() I often meet people who are upset about a particularly serious accident or tragedy where lots of people have died. We can’t beat or cheat death and, at the risk of stating the obvious, it gets us all in the end. If you are hoping for the latter, by the way, it will never happen! So, we do one of several things ignore it, refuse to think about it and bury our heads in the sand choosing instead to live for the moment, or we become obsessed with health and safety to ensure we live as long as possible, or even, in extreme cases, we arrange for some kind of preservation of the body, just in case the scientists find a way to restore life in the future. It hovers over us like a dark cloud throughout our lives rearing its ugly head from time to time when we lose someone close to us. In fact, no human being has ever had an answer to the problem of death. At 26 and on the edge of stardom, you might think that death would be the last thing on his mind, but it isn’t. ” A heavily edited excerpt from an interview my cousin, Connor Swindells, recently gave to a national newspaper. “ Let yourself have fun and let yourself fail. ![]()
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