Joanna Lumley revealed that she'd discussed her funeral plans with her husband (Image: Getty Images)

Joanna Lumley has confessed that she’s "conscious of growing older" as she shared insights into her thoughts on death. The 79-year-old Absolutely Fabulous star, who recently released a book that includes lines from some of her favourite authors—titled My Book of Treasures —addressed the subject of death.

Her remarks came as she discussed a "lovely piece" by 18th-century English writer Samuel Johnson, whose words, Joanna says, convey a "general feeling" that "life goes by" and that we must be "ready" for death.

This led her to disclose that she had discussed her funeral arrangements with her husband, Stephen Barlow , and quoted a poignant poem by Indian polymath Rabindranath T

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