The famed magician and mentalist described his father, who passed away last month, as his best friend and a man larger than life
Magician Keith Barry has spoken about his experience with grief following the death of his father, who he described as “my best friend”.
On The Grief Pod hosted by Venetia Quick the 48-year-old described his father as his best friend and a man, larger than life.“I think everybody found that difficult… especially my mum because emotionally he tried to retract and that was his method of trying to protect everyone. “And he didn’t want but it’s a role you kind of fall into and my mum was obviously his primary carer. Helping him in and out of the bed and off the commode, there’s no dignity in it. He was saying to the doctors and nurses, give me a cyanide tablet and let me go and I have to tell you, I haven’t looked into it as it’s the first time we’ve had to go through this…even though we keep people alive you wonder to what effect.
Keith added: “My dad was miserable, the joy was gone and he kept saying ‘this isn’t me’ and he was fully cognitively aware the whole way through until he died.
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