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Slow Death: One Survivor's Experience

The author, a clinical social worker, describes her own experience in confronting her husband's lingering death. It is an effort to explore one survivor's way of working through the process and offer a few observations of possible value to others. This account includes the responses of the writer's adolescent son as well as herself over a five year period.