After being given a terminal cancer diagnosis earlier this year, Valentine told a gathering of family and friends that he wanted his last days to be full of joy and laughter.
“I started to think about the way in which death was so often a time of bitterness, of anger, of regret, shaking your fist at the universe or your god and going, ‘what the hell is going on here?’ I don’t want that,” he said during a living wake that was filmed for an emotional episode of ABC’s Australian Story.
“I want my last days to be full of joy and happiness and laughter and jokes and humour – all the things I’ve loved through life.”
ABC Sydney station manager Nick Lowther said Valentine wanted a radio show as part of his memorial.
“He just wants to be able to have a chat through the people he’s organised to speak at his memorial,” Lowther told the ABC.
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Kayla Olaya is a culture reporter at The Sydney Morning Herald.Connect via email.From our partners
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