Kindness of strangers: The day of my mum’s funeral, the saleswoman at the stationery store made me feel less alone

Because I’d visited so often to print things, she made me feel that someone had witnessed the journey I was on, all the way through to its difficult conclusion Read more in the kindness of strangers series Mum’s disease progressed slowly at first, and then in a really big rush. After years of battling early onset Parkinson’s, in 2015 we were suddenly told she only had six months left. I was living in Brisbane, Australia and Mum was in a care home 600km away in Taree, so I began flying down ...

By Helen as told to Katie Cunningham