#475 House of Grass- Lucia Perillo
This is a pretty morbid story about an old woman who commits
suicide to save herself the pain of her advanced years. Apparently a lot of the
elderly around here commit suicide. They are in a retirement community near the
Puget Sound called Infinite Vistas (I-V for an unfortunately honest Acronym).
Because of this deadly phenomenon, its joked motto is:“A place where you can be
on death’s door and still get it open yourself.”
Dr, Henry is the local Physician and has seen many of these
suicides, and probably assisted in his own wife’s while she was suffering from
cancer. Like I said, this is all extremely morbid, and not at all insightful.
This doesn’t look deep into the psyche of a suffering soul, or have a political
point about the failures of healthcare to deal with the inevitable pain that
befalls us when we get older. It’s just a story about one woman who decides to
kill herself and throws her own goodbye party, and the blasé manner in which
her doctor deals with it.
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