Helene Hudson AMGEN Lectureship 2010 Learning to be a dying person: Being outside/inside cancer treatment systems

Abstract

“What my aim is at this point, and I find myself finding it difficult, finding what that goal is. Because when you’re healing, that’s a thing to look forward to and it moves you forward into your future. But if you’re not moving that way, you’re not moving towards a future that’s being without an illness, I don’t know how you can say (what) that direction is. I’m not sure I have the vocabulary for it. It’s all sort of stalled, sort of static.”