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... Music and love help dying defy the doctors - National - theage.com.au NEWS register www.theage.com.au Home » National » Article Music and love help dying defy the doctors Email Print Normal font Large font Miles away: Stuart and Ada Heywood lie back and dream as Peter Roberts plays his harp for cancer patient Stuart in their Portarlington home.Photo: Simon Odwyer By Melissa FyfeApril 1, 2006 THE man facing death has gone somewhere.

It's a place with "no cars, no buses, no trains, no pubs, no drunks, no smokers".

There is instead water, children, trees.

This is where Stuart Heywood travels — far from the lung tumours that may destroy him — when Peter Roberts plays his harp.

A long-legged tower of a man, Mr Heywood knocked about the alleyways of Depression-era Collingwood and once, as a homeless and damaged war veteran, slept with his young family in the Flagstaff Gardens.

He is not inclined to hippie, new-age ideas.

But the 82-year-old — who went on to be a successful businessman and motivational speaker for football clubs — is convinced the harp is helping him defy his doctors: death was due months ago.

The sincerity and love with which Mr R...

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