James Valentine

Beautiful hair.

Stage four, terminal, inoperable, uncurable.

I don't want to hear any of those words, let alone in the one sentence.

So a friend suggested to me, maybe you should do a living wake.

And I went, oh, that sounds like fun.

I will know the time and the date.

And so it'll be the last weekend.

What do you do on that last weekend?

What's dinner the night before?

What do you think?

Is it the last meal?

I will quite probably know exactly when I'm going.

I'm James Valentine and this season we're talking about death or on this episode why we don't talk about it enough.

Look, I'm very tearful as well at this moment because it is big.

It is sort of to have done it for so long and to have been able to be in something I love for so long is just really quite extraordinary.

So thank you.

Thank you to listeners.

Thank you to producers.

Thank you to the ABC.

And I mean that in the entire ABC, which is a support structure for this, for this from, from chair of the board all the way through to, through to the person who waves cheerily from the parking gate of a morning.