And further, we have to know the terrible seduction of dying not having to die, of being inundated with friends and family who cheerlead their loved one into the attitude of health, the positive outlook, the hopeful countenance, who enforce the banishment of any and all who would speak of dying when dying is at hand. We have to know how it is for dying men or women who are not allowed to know they are dying as they die, though throughout they know, how they have to maintain that secret awareness that masquerades as a fear alone, and how their job as someone’s parent or child or spouse now
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