Unraveling Grief and Love: The Haunting Journey Within "Rosie: A Memoir of Farewell"
Beyond the “philosophical musing,” the journals recorded Rosie’s physical decline, a situation which had haunted Sleigh. “Back in 2012 when she was 87 years old and had another decade to live, she called and said, ‘I don’t think I’m going to make it to my next birthday,’” just two months away. She frequently spoke “with a touch of theatrical irony… halfway serious. She often brought up suicide, more as a way of blowing off steam in a kind of game we played.” When she asks, “Can you help me out here, Son? And tell me how I might kill myself?” Sleigh’s response “Of course,” is automatic; he delivers it by rote, “never thinking for one instant that eventually she would do it.”
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