[kohanz]

An excellently written piece, with a perspective that can only be communicated by someone who is walking that path (so to speak). The thought that the whole "You WILL get better" or "keeping fighting!" notion highlights for me is how taboo of a subject death and dying is in many cultures (very much including Western culture). I truly believe the reason people say such cruel and selfish things is because they cannot bring themselves to talk about the topic of death. It's something we are taught to ignore until we cannot possibly do so any longer. I feel like we might live better lives if we talked about death and dying openly and throughout our lives.