Before I Go

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2017

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Four British men and women share something in common with every single one of us across the globe - one day they will die. Alongside the fear and grief that accompanied their diagnosis, these illnesses have also brought reflection, wisdom, opportunities and unexpected happiness. They are helping others, or living their dreams, changing lives and making a difference in the world. In their words, they explain what it means to have a life-limiting condition and approach the end of your time on Earth.

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0:00.0	Hello from the BBC World Service and welcome to the latest edition of the
0:05.0	documentary podcast. Every week we bring you a range of stories from our
0:09.8	presenters and reporters across the world.
0:13.0	If you have the time, please rate the documentary on your podcast app and leave us a comment.
0:18.3	Let us know what you think. My name is Sophie Savage. I was diagnosed with stage 4 incurable lung cancer in October 2014, at which time I had tumors in my lungs, lymph nodes,
0:38.3	bones and brain.
0:40.3	Hi, I'm Vivek Go here and I'm Vivic Gohill and I'm 26 years old and I'm from Leicester. I have Duchian
0:49.5	Musculatistophitis. I've got muscle wasting disease so as I got older and you kind of your
0:56.8	muscles waste you lose your walking and it's at time down in.
1:06.0	Hi there, my name is Vandy Payne. I've got end-stage C-O-P-D,
1:09.0	chronic obstructive poloomy disease.
1:12.0	I have this wonderful facial accessory called oxygen
1:17.2	pips and they're connected to an oxygen machine.
1:23.2	My name is Matthew Stride and I have a brain tumor.
1:27.8	We're going to share our experiences in Before Our Go on BBC World Service.
1:32.3	Occasionally you're here the reporter Sue Nelson, but it's mostly
1:35.2	our words, our thoughts, our lives, our experiences and our gift to you. This program is going to be really important. It's going to show that dying matters, but so does living.
1:51.0	It's going to be a gift for us to show you what it's like living with life-limiting
1:56.4	conditions and facing death. When we ordered an MRI eventually they found a tennis ball-sized tumor in my brain which was just quite devastating to be told
2:18.3	that we were told it was it was probably a low-grade glioma and that they could remove the tumor with surgery
2:26.7	and awake craniotomy. So I'd be awake for the surgery. Once they're taken out the bulk of the tumor, once they were sort of happy that they got as much as they could get out,
2:37.0	they sort of settle me down and sort of, they were talking to me the whole time anyway, but then at this point when they were sort of saying
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