Comments on: On Living Well & Dying Well http://rmarsh.com/2005/08/30/on-living-well-dying-well/ Spirituality and Theology Tue, 01 Nov 2011 15:21:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Crystal http://rmarsh.com/2005/08/30/on-living-well-dying-well/comment-page-1/#comment-73 Crystal Thu, 01 Sep 2005 17:47:29 +0000 http://rmarsh.com/2005/08/30/on-living-well-dying-well/#comment-73 Well, my cat Spot died yesterday, on my lap, "put to sleep" ... there's a euphemism for you ... I guess I'm incapable of grasping the concept of the "good death" Well, my cat Spot died yesterday, on my lap, “put to sleep” … there’s a euphemism for you … I guess I’m incapable of grasping the concept of the “good death”

]]> By: Crystal http://rmarsh.com/2005/08/30/on-living-well-dying-well/comment-page-1/#comment-72 Crystal Tue, 30 Aug 2005 18:38:22 +0000 http://rmarsh.com/2005/08/30/on-living-well-dying-well/#comment-72 The article says ... <i>In the end he (the MC in "The Death of Ivan Ilyich") dies quietly, blissfully, a good death for him and his family.</i> ... my mom didn't die "a good death" and as I write this, I'm caring for my two cats, both in end-state renal failure - not good deaths for them either. It's been a few years since my mom died and my cats, I know, are just cats, but it all hurts and I have to wonder at the sentiment that rates a loved one's death. The article says …

In the end he (the MC in “The Death of Ivan Ilyich”) dies quietly, blissfully, a good death for him and his family.

… my mom didn’t die “a good death” and as I write this, I’m caring for my two cats, both in end-state renal failure – not good deaths for them either. It’s been a few years since my mom died and my cats, I know, are just cats, but it all hurts and I have to wonder at the sentiment that rates a loved one’s death.

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