For the men and women in the following stories, it’s all about the fight: The fight to exit the world with dignity, the fight to allow the dying to exit without pain and the fight to be buried on one’s own property. For others, it’s about the opposing fight to convince people such exits aren’t right at all.
- Mary Duan
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Darby Worth starts the discussion with poetry. She doesn’t ask if the listener wants to hear it – she insists. She reads verse after verse, gr…
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The call comes on your cell when you least expect it, while in line at Peet’s Coffee. The doctor, a specialist from out of town, says “The tel…
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The Welsh poet Dylan Thomas famously beseeched his father in his 1951 poem, “Do not go gentle into that good night./ Rage, rage against the dy…
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