The Last Act of Love: The Story of My Brother and His Sister

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The next time she saw Matty he was lying on the road, knocked down by a hit-andrun driver as he was walking home in the early hours. Not bunting and balloons, but specialist equipment —a ripple mattress that prevented bed sores, a hoist, shower trolley and wheelchair. Cathy doesn't gloss over the facts, or try to hide her feelings and is quite brutal with herself at times. She thinks of Lady Macbeth unable to rinse the phantom stain from her hands and vows, “if Matty dies… I’ll never wash my hands again.

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In the summer of 1990, Cathy's brother Matty was knocked down by a car on the way home from a night out.I would recommend if anyone’s interested but knowing that it’s about coping with grief and guilt and about euthanasia.

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And somewhere along the seventh, eighth month mark, there's a walker and, after that, chemo scarves and chemo caps, a windowsill garden, you know, and eventually an urn, a memorial plaque. One of the reviews on the cover described it as life-affirming, and despite everything that happened with Cathy's brother, I agree.And the fork in the road for me was either I stopped doing it altogether or I start doing whatever I wanted. Grief is not always just about death and The Last Act of Love opens up a different view of what the other side can be like.

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