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That Dragon, Cancer

Imagine my surprise when I came upon “That Dragon, Cancer“. Video games are generally more suited to escapism than intimacy. In this game Ryan and Amy Green share the  story of raising their young son Joel who was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer. “That Dragon, Cancer” is one of an increasing number of personal, autobiographical games that are generating new conversations within, and outside, th

Final Chapters

Death goes in and out of fashion. The topic goes dormant for a few years, and then someone calls it forth again: Elisabeth Kübler-Ross with her disciplined “On Death and Dying” in 1969; Susan Sontag with her angry but profound “Illness as Metaphor” in 1978 and the empathetic follow-up “AIDS and Its Metaphors,” in 1988; Derek Humphry, with his suicide handbook “Final Exit” in 1991; Sherwin Nuland w

Food and the Dying Patient

The patient had dementia and could no longer swallow. The intricate workings of the muscles of her throat were failing, and she was no longer able to move food or liquids reliably into her stomach. Instead, they too frequently ended up in her lungs, and she drowned a little more with every swallow. She was admitted to intensive care service with pneumonia from aspirated food that had turned the bottom part of her
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