Studs Terkel: Will The Circle Be Broken?

By MARGIE THOMSON

We will all die. Yet this bleak statement gives no clue to the many attitudes we, as a sentient species, hold towards this final fact of our existence. In these many interviews, Studs Terkel's subjects reveal again and again that dying is really about living: how you think about one profoundly affects how you do the other.

He interviews an enormous range of people: mothers whose children have died senseless deaths; lovers and parents of Aids victims, and sufferers; firefighters who have seen people die painfully; ambulance workers, doctors, policemen, war veterans, priests, thinkers and writers. Enlightening and humane, this is a valuable window into an often shrouded subject.

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