He dreads dying before his three children finish college.
A fastidious and private man, he had a dread of dying in hospital; and after a long illness he died in his own bed – with his beloved wife, Mary, reading his favourite poem to him.
("Be with me, words, a little longer...".) About these efforts, Roth says, "In the midst of the dread of dying, in the midst of the act of dying, he was writing about the event with the same precise intensity, the same intelligence, the same craftsmanship".
I always, always, always dreaded her dying.
As the mom of an infant and a toddler, I have been both dreading and dying to hear another parent ask me one question: "Do you have a gun in your house?" .
By then my dread of her dying had become entwined with a painful perception that she had blighted much of her life — and cast a shadow on my own — in the service of her obsessive fear.
It offers information, advice on nutrition, relaxation classes and a psychologist for anyone needing to talk about the most intractable subjects (depression, fear of dying, dread of cancer returning and other issues not easy to address in a hospital environment).
Neither hope nor dread attend the dying animal, man dies hoping, fearing all... Man knows death to the bone.
We couldn't bare to have the lid off for too long because of the overpowering smell, so quickly had to slam it back on, leaving the dreads to die a slow, stinky death.
"Most of us dread the prospect of dying, including me," he wrote in the new book.
