Alanna Thornton’s Reviews > Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End > Status Update

“All we ask is to be allowed to remain the writers of our own stories.”

“In almost none does anyone sit down with you and try to figure out what living a life really means to you under the circumstances, let alone help you make a home where that life becomes possible.
This is the consequence of a society that faces the final phase of the human life cycle by trying not to think about it.”

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Oof is this going to make me feel more prepared (for myself and my parents) or just feel completely terrified and overwhelmed…

That’s so SAD

“I’d felt that I killed these people. I’d failed. Death, of course is not a failure.”

Okay introduction includes my sign to read The Death of Ivan Ilyich this year