Long, long day’s journey into nightAs modern medicine's ability to slow terminal illness increases, we’re only just beginning to face, as a culture, the deep ambivalence this creates for both patient and family.
The right-to-die debateAs we’re living longer and longer, we may not necessarily choose to live through a painful terminal illness. Do we have the right to opt out? Should we?
Death as technology’s slaveWith new financial incentives, many patients are prematurely promoted to maximum treatment and patients and families are becoming victims of the war on sudden death.
Each of us owes the Universe a deathIn a very dark corner of each of our minds is a voice that says, “I’m going to die. One day, I’m going to die.” How we react to this voice determines how we live our lives.
The essence of psychotherapy and fiction writing is, no matter how small or fleeting, the possibility that, things might be not only different, but better.