I've often wondered where the title While I live comes from.

In the film the older sister (played by Sonia Dresdel) quotes a scrap of poetry but I couldn't identify it. It something that bothered me about twenty years ago and I never did get to the bottom of it.

I no longer have the vhs copy of the film or the notebook that I was working in at the time - not to hand anyway. I did find out that the film was originally a play. The something garden.....ahhhh!