A lot of the qualities in 'Killing and Dying' is sort of a response to work I'd done previously. I wanted to push myself in some different directions.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Killing yourself is a major commitment, it takes a kind of courage. Most people just lead lives of cowardly desperation. It's kinda half suicide where you just dull yourself with substances.
I suppose, if helping a patient die is killing, I suppose I'm a killer.
'The Killing' has a really great combination of qualities: Even though it's very sad and deals with mourning and grief, it's still exciting. It's about real people and it doesn't shy from the painful points of life.
Death is very often referred to as a good career move.
I intentionally approached each story in 'Killing and Dying' in a different way, and that includes the writing process.
I've worked very hard to become comfortable with how death works and why it happens. I now know that death isn't out to get me.
In working with those who are dying, I offer another human being a spacious environment with my mind in which they can die as they need to die. I have no right to define how another person should die. I'm just there to help them transition, however they need to do it.
To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.
Working with the dying is like being a midwife for this great rite of passage of death. Just as a midwife helps a being take their first breath, you help a being take their last breath.
Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.