Our inability to choose how we will be remembered is Deeply Regretted

‘Two or three decades of formidable theatrical achievement is more evanescent than the froth on a cappuccino: half-remembered moments in the memories of committed older theatre-goers, but no contemporary currency at all.’

THE problem with funerals is that, once the mourners go home and scrape the graveyard mud off their shoes, that’s it.

We still feel sympathy with the widow or the widower, the son or the daughter, but we don’t do much about expressing that sympathy. Which is why the St Vincent de Paul Society, a while back, asked me to come up with a trigger video which would jolt their volunteers into a new understanding of how abandoned the bereaved can feel in the weeks after a death in the family.