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Love and Loss
https://doi.org/10.1142/9789812832481_0002Cited by:0 (Source: Crossref)
Abstract:
“I love you more than one more day.” Joan Didion.
“Mommy, am I going to die?” Lisa, age 10, had asked Roseanne, her mother, after seeing a commercial about Cooley's anemia on television. It said early death was the norm seen in patients with the disease that Lisa had. Roseanne couldn't answer any better than she had in the past. “Everybody dies. You remember that little girl of two who was run down by a drunk driver? She died very young. Other people live to be really old, like grandpa and grandma. But all of us die. When we are born, it's not ‘if’ we're going to die, it's ‘when’”…
