Dying Archives - The American Scholar

Coma

By Diana Goetsch | 04/27/2016 |

I might be alive.

Intimacy With the Inevitable

By William Harless | 06/10/2013 |

A doctor’s journey, from student to resident to consoler of the dying

To Accept What Cannot Be Helped

By Ann Hulbert | 12/01/2010

At 80, a woman with a fatal disease knows she doesn’t want to die in the hospital and discovers, with her family, what that really means