July/August 2011
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The New Grief
Are We Casualties of Medicine's War on Death?
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Editor's Note
As the writers in this issue powerfully demonstrate, medical science has made extended dying and its impact on relatives and loved ones—what psychologist Joseph Nowinski, in the issue’s cover story, calls “the new grief. . . the gritty business of living with slow death”—increasingly common, even normal.
The New Grief
Long, Long Day's Journey Into Night
Unhappy Endings
Death as Technology’s Slave
Extra Feature
The Stories We Live
In therapy—as in Fiction—There’s Always Possibility