Deborah James’s eloquence and bravery reduced one reader to tears. But, asks another, can there really be a ‘good death’?
Photograph: @bowelbabe/twitterAs someone who was diagnosed with an incurable cancer around the same time as Deborah James, I have watched her public response to living with cancer with both awe and detachment . Awe, in the way she can TikTok dance with a cannula in her arm and in the way she navigates the bathos of cancer as a public discourse, deftly side-stepping self-pity and blame.
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