the truth is that life is risky and dangerous, - Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

Grief will happen either as an open healing wound or as a closed festering wound, either honestly or dishonestly, either appropriately or innappropriately.

When I die I'm going to dance first in all the galaxies...I'm gonna play and dance and sing.

We have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a humanitarian and respected profession or a new but depersonalized science in the service of prolonging life rather than diminishing human suffering.