If you find this piece worthwhile, consider the Go Fund Me that’s funding ongoing care. Before the May 25 cancer surgery that took my tongue, I’d been lifting weights, steadily but poorly, for a decade, and that habit is in part responsible for me pulling through the horrific aftermath of the surgery. The more physically…
I’ve told Bess that, given the current circumstances, my job is easier than hers: all I have to do is die. She has the hard part; she has to live and figure out how to go on. Death's severing of connections feels particularly acute for the people who are most attached to other people, and…