Tonight, from BBC North West:
What would you do if you were told you had three months to live? ... What you do is carry on living as normally
(Tony Whiteley)
Tony Whiteley was 34 years old when he was told he was going to die. His son Joseph was three years old and his wife Vivien was pregnant with their second child. 'We just decided that we would act positively ...and make the best possible plans for me and the children so that we would not be left in any sort of mess and so that Tony would feel he had done the. best he could and not left us in any sort of distress.'
(Vivien Whiteley)
' And we all have to help each other - patient and relative and doctor - in the conquest over the fear of death; because this society, perhaps more than any other, is extremely bad at dealing with this facet of life.'
(Professor at a University Hospital)
Part of the Network series of programmes made specially for audiences in the BBC Regions and now seen for the first time throughout the United Kingdom.
Producers Alan Murgatroyd and Ray Colley
Life after death: page 11