Friday, August 22, 2014

Focus on life …

… How to Talk to the Dying. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

The job of a patient’s friends is to remind her that not even waiting for an unknown end need entail the suspension of time, the detachment from life. It can, instead, be what Nemerov calls “the razor of a moment,” the satisfaction of a life lived “between anticipation and regret.”

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