I feel that the more I discuss the future with you, the more discouraged I become. - Kelley Armstrong

Here’s where I’m going wrong. Well, one of the many ways I am going wrong. I feel superior to these people. I’m from the twenty-first century. So much more enlightened than them. That’s bullshit, of course.
I have the advantages of the modern world. Thinking it makes me smarter is the polar opposite of “enlightened.”

My husband is already dead. He only needs to stop breathing to make it official.

Ultimately, you are his physician, which is probably why he is about to die.