“I’M determined not to die over the Jubilee weekend, I don’t want Meghan stealing my thunder,” Dame Deborah James tells me. Laughing down the phone, the Sun writer has lost none of her sense of humour as she shares an update almost a month after revealing she has moved to end-of-life care at the home of her parents Alistair and Heather.
Debs says: “I haven’t worked so hard to raise cancer awareness and money to help find a cure, only to miss out on another Sun front page when I go.” The 40-year-old campaigner — presented with a damehood by Prince William last month when he cleared his diary to visit her parents’ home — is joking.
Her wit and spark has not deserted her in her final days. But, sounding exhausted, she does admit: “Dying is really hard. I’ve been consumed by anger this week, in all honesty, I’ve been a real bitch. "I keep shouting at people and pushing them away.
I’m angry at what’s happening to me. I don’t want to die.” It is why Dame Debs, who has children Hugo, 14, and Eloise, 12, with husband Seb, has taken the hard decision not to see close friends, and only spend time with family. .css-16e4f55{margin:16px 0;}.css-1ducoxm{background-color:rgba(201,254,244,1);margin:16px 0;}.css-1tapza8{padding:20px 15px;}.css-1bk4jdt{padding:20px.
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