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This is a previously-published edition of ISBN 9500712903.
235 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1998
A partir de cierta edad, de cierto grado de impedimento físico, la verdadera cárcel es el cuerpo y todo otro encierro no es más que una consecuencia menor.
When I heard the banging and explosions, I did what we all do: I made sure the security features in my apartment were working. I played music full blast so I wouldn't hear the screams. I locked myself in the bathroom and turned on the shower.Ernesto, like others, must deal with life in a society where life seems cheapened. Paparazzi with video cameras crowd around hospitals hoping to get footage of someone dying. The Suicide Channel is one of television's more popular offerings. Only the poor go to hospitals, where, to ensure a profit, the "franchise owners" require patients' families to provide the food. Both physicians and families, meanwhile, are required to report the declining health of older people so they can report to "convalescent homes," paid for by selling what property the individual has. As a result, older and ill people pay doctors under the table to be their "secret" physician because an "official" physician would be required to report them.