Unveiling the Raw Truth: Ariel Gore’s Rehearsals for Dying Challenges Our Perceptions of Love and Cancer
“Like those are the only two possible positions when one has cancer — losing or fighting.
“What about those too tired, sick, or traumatized to go to battle?
“What about those who run out of money?”
Or, as Ariel quotes Cat Thomas, one of the persons she interviewed, “So the question is, what if you can’t prevent disease or injury? What if we have no control over some of the things that happen to us?”
I will also say this about Rehearsals for Dying: Ariel is right, as the spouse of someone living through cancer, to call out those of us who allow our own unresolved griefs to block us from deepening connections with cancer and those diagnosed with it. This is, perhaps, a particularly American reality, as our citizens are rarely offered the time and space to comprehend any grief, but to read Ariel’s words chilled me (and prompted me to be better moving forward):
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