In the fifth of a six-part series on death and grieving, Irish-born writer Josephine Hart tells Bel Mooney about the agony of losing three of her siblings: her infant brother Charles from pneumonia, her sister Sheila from meningitis and her brother Owen in an accident. Although she describes herself as a cheerful person, she cannot imagine a life free from the suffering of grief.

(The series ends tomorrow at 5.40pm)