Who wants to live forever?

People close to death in a serious terminally ill cancer ward on Beak Street have been keeping up their spirits by singing a song by now long-dead-and-gone popster Frederick Mercury, in their beds.

The song Who Wants to Live Forever, from the Scottish/French crossover film Highlander, has been putting smiles on the faces of patients and staff alike in the Soho hospital. The ill people have been singing the rousing song up to six times a day, twice after each meal.

Frank Peacock from Tunbridge Wells, who was struck down by cancer of the leg while visiting the Beak Street area, was one of the first to start the chorus back in July. Says Frank: "It was after seeing the film Highlander on the telly. We all just started to hum the tune. Then one of the doctors brought in the lyric sheet, and it escalated from there."