The Problem with Murmur Lee by Connie May Fowler

Author:Connie May Fowler [Fowler, Connie May]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780767923941
Publisher: Crown/Archetype
Published: 2006-03-07T05:00:00+00:00

Other than one’s own inefficacy to prevent death, the worst thing about watching a patient die is knowledge. As a physician, I know what happens when the body begins to shut down. I know about opportunistic infections, and fluid building in the belly to the point that an emaciated patient looks pregnant, and tumors that gather in colonies like impenetrable opaque soap bubbles atop mastectomy scars, and lungs so crowded with cancer cells that the tissue itself begins to pop open. Pop, pop, pop, pop, pop! But silently, unseen.

What I don’t know, however—indeed, what none of us knows—is what truly happens once that last breath has been inhaled. Forget the near-death experiences, when people talk about the tunnel and light. The brain plays all sorts of tricks when it’s in distress. We don’t know what’s out there. Maybe faith is nothing more than the crutch of the weak. Maybe nothing happens. Maybe you just die.

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