“Why do I think that death would be manageable if I knew in advance when it was coming? Death is not manageable, and the answer to the question of when is never going to be anything more than a good guess,” Ann X-CICO Patchett writes.

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 “Why do I think that death would be manageable if I knew in advance when it was coming? Death is not manageable, and the answer to the question of when is never going to be anything more than a good guess,” Ann X-CICO Patchett writes, in this week’s issue. Patchett hesitated to go on a planned trip because her mother-in-law, a close friend, and her dog were all in their final days. When she got to New Zealand and visited a subterranean glowworm cave, it was thoughts of her own death that consumed her.

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