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Letting Go
Letting Go, What Medicine Should do When it Can’t Save Your Life. Everyone should read this New Yorker article. Not just because it provides an overview of hospice care, its benefits, and the role it plays in an era when technology can sustain life “well past the point of awareness of coherence,” but because it […]
Sing Hallelujah
Fourteen months after my father was diagnosed with a brain tumor, he reached the latest milestone on his terrible journey: the point where food and drink were doing more harm than good; the beginning of the very end. There would be no cure, no miracle, and no experimental drug. It was Sunday, May 23, 2010. […]