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A Very Easy Death by Simone de Beauvoir

In writing on her mother's death, French writer Simone de Beauvoir touched on palliative and end-of-life care questions long before her time
Posted on June 20, 2014 by MaryFrances Knapp (Blog Writer, SevenPonds)

The most remarkable thing about Simone de Beauvoir’s A Very Easy Death (1964) is its author’s deft choice to seek the ordinary. Beauvoir’s is not a story we haven’t heard before — mother is diagnosed with cancer; children struggle by … Continue reading →

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