Each of them needed a language that did not come from the cheerleading mantras of positive thinking or from the half-speak orthodoxy of self-help or from the guideless generic counsel talk of patient-centered care. They needed a language that testified to what was there to be known. They needed a language that didn’t come from cancer care, but from now, finally, beginning to die while in cancer care. They didn’t need another round of patient-centered care. They needed the recognizable beginning and the true language of dying-centered care.
