Well, when she did die, we were conflicted about doing that, and it's interesting you read the Kafka intro because I was aware of that, and I thought of it often in the last three years.
And obviously we all defend our Constitution and the First Amendment and free speech, but we also believe that when men and women die in the service of their country and are laid to rest, it should be done with the utmost honor and respect.
The genome has been deciphered and it is not the case that we can predict at a young age when people will die or even what nasty diseases they will get in old age.
When there is no way of knowing exactly how long our skeins will run and whenwe imagine ourselves to have much more time than we do our every impulse is to fight, to die with chemo in our veins or a tube in our throats or fresh sutures in our flesh.