"Auntie Phyl's last months in the care home……" — Margaret Drabble

Auntie Phyl's last months in the care home were extra pieces. Age… - Margaret Drabble
"Auntie Phyl's last months in the care home were extra pieces. Age is unnecessary. Some of us, like my mother, are fortunate enough to die swiftly and suddenly, in full possession of our faculties and our fate, but more and more of us will be condemned to linger, at the mercy of anxious or indifferent relatives, careless strangers, unwanted medical interventions, increasing debility, incontinence, memory loss. We live too long, but, like the sibyl hanging in her basket in the cave at Cumae, we find it hard to die."

Margaret Drabble

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