Posted on 03/25/2025 7:27:10 AM PDT by Borges
She was a great writer and, yes, she should still be read.
It is all about control..Terminal illnesses take away control. One has to fight to regain it, and only then, can a person gain dignity instead of losing it. I have told my Doctors on many occasions that we all are born with end stages on the horizon, and remind THEM that they will die too, eventually. It is how you live that determines how you die. I thought Flannery O’Connor used a great metaphor: “The wolf is in the house, I’m afraid, rummaging around”.
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