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In the deeply personal and moving publication, the loved NPR radio variety talks out about the long, drawn-out fatality (from Parkinson's) of her man of 54 years and of her battle to reconstruct her life without him. With John gone, Diane was indeed on her behalf own, coping with the inevitable practical issues and, more important, with the profoundly emotional ones. How to proceed, how to react, reaching out again in to the world - struggling to make a new certainty for herself while clinging to memories of the past. Her concentration is on her behalf own roller-coaster experience, but she has also solicited the moving experiences of such lately widowed friends as Roger Mudd and Susan Stamberg, which work to expose the listener to a amazing range of reactions to the fatality of a spouse. John's unnecessarily extended fatality - he begged to be helped to die - culminated in his taking concerns into his own hands, simply refusing to take drinking water, food, and medication. His heroic actions spurred Diane into learning to be a kind of poster person for the "right to die" movement that is all too slowly and gradually taking shape inside our country. While using brave persistence that has characterized her expereince of living, she is getting a significant new way to contribute to the world. Her book - as practical as it is inspiring - is a help and a comfort to the lately bereaved and a beacon of expectation about the options that stay to us once we deal with our own getting close mortality.
