Reflections

by Roger C. Bone

I am a physician and I am dying of metastasis of renal carcinoma. As I write these words, I understand I may live a week, a month, a year–perhaps two. If I beat all the odds, I may live five years. I have spent the majority of my adult life as a clinician, author, researcher , and professor . As a result, I have felt a strong impulse to write about the mental, spiritual, and practical aspects of thedying process. The Journal of the American Medical Association has published some of my thoughts in a series of personal commentaries entitled “The Taste of Lemonade on a Summer Afternoon,” “Another Taste of Lemonade,” “Lemonade–The Last Refreshing Taste,” and “ My Walden Pond.” In addition, I have investigated the topic of dying in great works of literature. My findings were detailed in “As I Was An Examination of Classic Literature and Dying” in the Annals of Internal Medicine, a professional medical journal.

77 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 11, 2012