Published author Rick Rapport has written about his personal experiences with patients, doctors and families in crisis when near death. Dr. Rapport is a colleague and Clinical Professor of Neurosurgery at nearby Harborview Hospital. He has given permission to link this article here.
“Before we become ill, we tend to assume that everything can be treated and treated successfully. The prelate in Willa Cather’s Death Comes for the Archbishop was wiser. Approaching the end, he said to a younger priest, ‘I shall not die of a cold, my son. I shall die of having lived.”’
Thanks for sharing this, Jim. My hope is that this leads to more open, honest conversation about the end of life within the Skyline community.
Thanks, I’ve been involved in two presentations here over the past two years and last June gave a talk at Town Hall. It was videoed by KEXP and can been viewed at this link: https://www.skyline725.com/stories-from-the-icu-and-beyond-a-talk-at-town-hall-about-lifes-end/