Think of your death bed and think of it often (Q&A with Tiffany Philippou)

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Hello,

As promised, here’s the rest of the Q&A from the interview I did with Tiffany Philippou!

I meant to schedule it for the weekend but forgot in all the excitement of my interview on BBC radio 2. The appearance on national radio has also led to some more paying subscribers. If that’s you, welcome! Thanks so much for supporting what I do. Because you’re new here, you may have missed the first part of this interview which explains the background. You can read that here.

To summarise very briefly Tiffany has written a memoir called Totally Fine (And Other Lies I've Told Myself) which explores Tiffany’s experience of losing her boyfriend to suicide when she was 20-years-old and the decade of grief, shame and trauma that followed. It’s a really moving book but also relatable even if you haven’t experienced anything like this. As her friends point out to her in one chapter, everyone is carrying around pain even if they don’t talk about it.

I’ve run out of problems for my agony aunt column…