 To only think ‘you’re alive, you have acne and then you die’ makes you wonder what it’s all for.”

Wood was diagnosed with terminal cancer in late 2015, but kept her illness private.She died on 20 April 2016 at her Highgate home, in the presence of her children and former husband.Her family celebrated her life with a humanist funeral at Golders Green Crematorium on 5 May 2016.