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kital 61M
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10/21/2012 10:36 pm
HELLO-- GOODBYE !!

DEATH Oct 21, 2012 12:35
Credit to the author !!

This book's title is from a Goethe poem, "The Holy Longing," translated from German in its entirety by Robert Bly: "And so long as you haven't experienced / this: to die and so to grow, / you are only a troubled guest / on the dark earth." Ten intensely personal essays tell of the suffering and everyday presence of pain of a severely disabled writer who has advancing multiple sclerosis, and of how, "in a very real sense, and entirely without design, death has become [her] life's work."

Beginning with her father's sudden death when she was a , the essays describe her aging mother's expected death and the family's decision to take her off life support; her caretaker husband's diagnosis of metastatic cancer with uncertain prognosis; her own attempted suicide; death of friends, pets, including her beloved dog !! If that weren't enough, a coda, her foster 's murder and again the decision to remove life-support, provides "[t]he end. For now." !!!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN !!
LETS WRITE MORE BLOGS !!
kital 61M
270 posts
11/11/2012 11:01 pm
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I KNOW !! JUST FOR HALLOWEEN !!
LETS WRITE MORE BLOGS !!




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