What lies between the writer of an illness narrative and the reader are words that instantiate human relationality. Writers of end-of-life memoirs often explore the past to find comfort in an uncertain present and open space for readers to shore up meaning in the face of their foreclosed future. In this video, I summarized a paper from the Lancet about three end-of-life memoir books that were published in recent years. -You can access the article by clicking the following link: thelancet.com
Title of the paper: The weight of words: human relationality in end-of-life memoirs —By Payman Salamati, preventive and social medicine specialist, professor at Tehran University of Medical Sciences