My Father's Death

Authors

  • Jacques Quintin Faculté de médecine et des sciences de la santé, Bureau du développement de l’éthique, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Canada

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7202/1035498ar

Keywords:

Alzheimer’s, story, ethics, death, mourning

Language(s):

French

Abstract

The following text consists of the end of life story of my father, at home under the care of my mother, and illustrates some issues of ethics, family, suffering and meaning. This story helps to show that sickness and death, far from being reduced to a problem to solve, becomes a question: who are we and what do we become? And above all, there is the question: what can we expect from these life experiences?

Published

2015-04-08

Issue

Section

Creative Works