James Lileks on Mortality
James Lileks, known to bloggers for his daily Internet column
The Bleat, wrote a long piece in 1996 about his mother's death from cancer. Go forth and read "
October at Home".
And if you want a shorter take on losing a parent to cancer, read my doggerel "But through fifth floor hospital panes...." in an old PDF edition of
Prolog. It's no
One True Thing, but it got published.