Chasing Daylight

I first read this in April 2007 and finally completed it 29Aug.

This is a great book by itself. It talked about how a man felt having only ~100 days left to spend. It was sad that he didn't realise that he spent to little time with friends and family until after the diagnose which was already too late.

It carried 2 perpectives:
1 - Dying man's point of view
2 - Wife beside dying husband point of view

I was greatly moved by the following phrases:

- "Things don't go according to plan"
- "I was learning to accept. I had to accept. I had no recourse but to accept"
- "It was at the clinic that I really began to understand acceptance. To accept acceptance, if you will"
- "You cannot control everything"
- Later, my brother and I talked alone. He was angry - not to me, but at life ... "Your anger won't do anyone any good"

Wife: - When I asked him if he would like me to hold his hand through the night he said "If it would not tire you too much"
We lay in separate beds .... and I held his hand through the night.

"There is no death! What seems so is TRANSITION;
This life of mortal breath
Is but a suburb of the life elysian
Whose portal we call DEATH"
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow