“I didn’t want the children to come see you in the hospital, once you were intubated, knocked out by morphine. We can tell them you were getting better.” She says “you” indiscriminately to refer to him—so palpably alive—and to the other man who’s about to die. It’s her way of denying one reality and accepting a new one. Over the next few days, the psychologists will observe this reaction in everyone.
