Abstract
Your refrigerator door is a crazy quilt of death and life: a yellowed form from the state reads, “Do Not Resuscitate”; dog-eared photos show you beaming as mother and wife. Those instructions I sent you for stopping nosebleeds— sit up, lean forward, compress— sit right beside your grandson’s crayon sketch: dressed in your Julia Child apron, Mother, you are ever the reigning spirit of this house....
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Your refrigerator door is a crazy quilt of death and life: a yellowed form from the state reads, “Do Not Resuscitate”; dog-eared photos show you beaming as mother and wife. Those instructions I sent you for stopping nosebleeds— sit up, lean forward, compress— sit right beside your grandson’s crayon sketch: dressed in your Julia Child apron, Mother, you are ever the reigning spirit of this house. Today, you wheel yourself into the kitchen, pause before the fridge and sigh. You nudge that Monet magnet to the right. The “DNR” disappears beneath a blue sky and a field of wild poppies.
JAMA – American Medical Association
Published: Jan 10, 2007
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