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Hi, it's Andy here and welcome to Radio Headspace and to Friday morning. So the weekend

ahead I thought it would be worth looking at the idea of both control and letting go

of control, hopefully with the idea of relinquishing some control. I was with a group of friends

just recently. Unfortunately one of their parents was very unwell and because of that they

had been forced to open a file, a file that had been put together by one of their parents

in the unfortunate event of their death. As we talked about it, it's also though that

the conditions had been set out in advance that, okay, this is how I would like my passing

to be dealt with. And it was very specific and of course some of that is so difficult for

families when people do pass away. You know, you could look at it as someone being really

thoughtful in advance and trying to do everything they can to make it easy for their loved

ones. But then the more we talked about it, they actually sort of were, you know, sort

of smiling. As they said, you know, they were surprised at just a level of detail and

the specifications of what would be okay and what wouldn't be okay and the people who

even were being invited to the funeral by the person who by that stage would have passed

away. We got talking about sort of this idea of control, you know, this particular person.

It was so buttoned up. It was as though they were trying to control something even beyond

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