Faye Yerbury
We are very sad to learn of the death of one of our founder members, Faye Yerbury.
A Master Photographer specialising in Classic Nudes, Faye and her husband Trevor were together for 46 years, married for 42 of them, and she died a day before their wedding anniversary.
Faye had lived since the age of twelve with only one lung. Last year, on being diagnosed with terminal cancer, she decided to give her body to medical science which prompted her and Trevor to get in touch to ask what they might do, given that a conventional funeral was out of the question.
I suggested she have a living funeral, so that’s what we did on Sunday the 21st of July last year, and I wrote an account of it for The Herald newspaper.
As I said in the article, “It takes courage to accept our own mortality”, and that was one quality Faye had in abundance. One of the guests who spoke at the party said “she had the body of a wren and the heart of an eagle”.
A few weeks ago, a team from the BBC’s Morning Live programme got in touch, and Esther Rantzen’s daughter, Rebecca Wilcox interviewed Faye and Trevor for the episode that was broadcast yesterday.
You can see the interview here, on the BBC Morning Live page on Facebook.
