When the time comes, most of those same people seem to hope for a quiet death, a dignified death, a painless death, a peaceful death. The dilemma for them and for me is that, being the children of a death-phobic culture, a quiet, dignified, painless, peaceful death is mostly a fantasy for us, because the business of dying itself is a torment, an affliction, a victimization, and a venal injustice.
