Between Living and Dying

<p>Busy and deeply absorbed in all the complexity of life, Ruth Scott's packed diary suddenly had to be cleared when she was diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer. She said, 'Discovering that life might be shorter than expected or hoped for concentrates the mind wonderfully. Whatever life is left to me, I do not want to waste it.'</p> <p>In the final months of her life, in the shadows between living and dying, she learned to live with the extremes of treatments that were