From premature babies to centenarians, from close family to complete
strangers, heroes to wastrels, I have buried them all. I know that life
is essentially fragile.' It began with a slight unsteadiness; then
slurred speech. After months of tests at the John Radcliffe Infirmary in
Oxford, the consultant said, 'Rev Wenham, would you like to sit down?'
'This was the big one, ' wrote Michael. 'I knew about David Niven and
Peter Cook. 'It was not so long ago that Diane Pretty had been on the
television news, pleading through her husband to be put out of her
misery.' Now Michael, who had helped so many parishioners through
terminal illness, faced his own sentence. How would he cope? Would his
faith stand the heat