Dame Diana Rigg DEAD

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Having watched Theatre of Blood since last posting in this topic, her performance and get-up in that film MUST be included in the list of favourites:

 

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This is a powerful piece by Rachael Stirling about her mother's final days, death and assisted dying.

‘It’s gone on too long. Push me over the edge’: Diana Rigg’s dying wishes in the grip of cancer

Rachael Stirling reflects on her mother’s final months – and listens back to the recordings the actor made then, racked with pain, as a passionate advocate of assisted dying

www.theguardian.com

That's very sad, and a difficult read

 

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So much of what she says in those recordings is the sort of stuff I'm CERTAIN my dad would've been saying towards the end of his life, though the nature of how he went meant he wasn't able to actually say it.