Sara Douglass

by Veronica Foale on September 27, 2011

in Life

Have you read this post by Sara Douglass?

She died today.

I hope her family were there to hold her hand and watch her last breath. I hope she wasn’t alone.

The Silence of the Dying

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frogpondsrock September 27, 2011 at 7:47 pm

Thankyou for the link to that post V, I hope she wasn’t alone as well. I am so pleased we were there with Mum. I am also pleased that Mum felt able to talk to us about her impending death. So so pleased.

Kate @ Puddles and Gumboots September 27, 2011 at 8:15 pm

I heard earlier today that she had died, but it wasn’t until I read that post you linked to that I knew she had been sick. I didn’t know she blogged either. Oh my heart is breaking now, I really hope she wasn’t alone. I love her books

Marilyn@Live First Write Later September 28, 2011 at 8:23 am

I read the whole post Veronica. Thank you for sharing it. I’m glad that it gives your mum a lot of peace as well. I hope I can provide what’s needed too when it’s my turn to help someone die.

Achelois September 28, 2011 at 10:21 am

Thank you for the link, I had not read this previously. I read the whole post also and found it brutally honest. She has many many good points, even the constant repetition of variations on the word dying were helpful I think. I imagine in my mind that she did not die alone. That she made peace with her demons and that her mother was there waiting for her. It must have been devastating for her to lose her mother at such a vulnerable age. May she rest in peace.

Thank you for posting this Veronica, I think often now that I have come to terms with my grandmothers death but I realise that still I grieve and miss her.

Nikki September 30, 2011 at 4:41 am

Thank you for this post. It was wonderful to read the honesty of her words. My own mother is in a similar situation and we haven’t had such an open conversation yet. It terrifies me – but as Sara wrote, its not about me.

Alexandra October 19, 2011 at 1:36 am

Oh, amazing.

I saw your post, and clicked over to Sara’s site.

There is such beauty…loss, too..but such beauty.

An end, and a beginning.

My nephew is currently going through chemotherapy and radiation for the 3rd time with his T cell lymphomas.

He is all smiles, and seems so peaceful.

I’m the one who can’t even think about a life without him here.

I can’t.
But, as Sara said so perfectly, it’s not about me.

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