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How does one accompany a friend to the grave? What are the conditions for watching someone decide when it’s time to die? When do we acknowledge that loneliness isn’t just the ruling principle of dying, it’s the most singular characteristic of living? Ms. Nunez goes there.

A bracing read. Everything about these people seems familiar. The same long faces, stricken with the brutal realities we are made to endure.