Living in My Afterlife

After three months in a hospital, two years later, and all of the doctors' fruitless, "recommendations," a sixty-nine-year-old patient comes to the fateful, conclusion that they have a dehumanizing, incurable disease. The patient fears surviving his horror story with little relief, and the lack of an alternative would be cruel and unusual punishment. This story is not rare. But it's a horror story of protocol, mixed with the confusion of a competing and counterintuitive medical system. Meanwhile