Recent efforts by Tony Judt, Christopher Hitchens, Atul Gawande, following on slightly older ones by Joan Didion and Phillip Roth, make me wonder whether we’ve achieved a new breakthrough in our ability to write about death — perhaps especially protracted death, death within the context of medical treatment, in a secular context, which as Gawande reminds us, is comparatively new and certainly much more common.
The murmur of the snarkmatrix…
Matt § A leaky rocketship /
Greg Linch § A leaky rocketship /
Robin § A leaky rocketship /
P. Renaud § A leaky rocketship /
Jay H § Matching cuts /
Greg Linch § Matching cuts /
Inque § Matching cuts /
Gavin Craig § Matching cuts /
Adam § Matching cuts /
Tim Maly § Sooo /
The snarkmatrix awaits you