On TV, people die all at once: They get shot and collapse very neatly; they hardly ever scream or bleed, and when they are sick they deteriorate just as neatly, with a little pallor and a little bruising around the eyelids. Then they tenderly die—after a little speech! The real thing isnt remotely like this; not even Quentin Tarantino could make a realistic entertainment out of the crushing boredom and horror of real chronic illness, with its hemorrhages and ruptures, stench and suppuration. The person you knew disappears entirely, sometimes to reemerge from a miasma of pain and terror days or weeks later. Sometimes not.
Posted on: Fri, 05 Dec 2014 16:37:11 +0000
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