Hold my hand. Don't let go.

I want to die in my own way. It's my illness, my death, my choice. This is what saying yes means.

Parents don't know their children at all. No one knows anyone, in fact.

And now he's down this for me. He's made me famous. He's put my name on the world.

She'll understand what I already know - that death surrounds us all. And it tastes like metal between your teeth.

As an actor I worked for seven years with a community theater company based in London. We used improvisation techniques to take stories to young people who wouldn't normally have access to them - in prisons, hospitals, young offender's units, youth clubs and housing estates.

It hurts and hurts to have him this close. I feel sick with it.