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The Hallucinatory Thoughts of the Dying Mind
Delirium exposes the gap between the ideal and the reality
It has what David Wright, a Canadian medical ethnographer, called a relational dimension, in the sense that any individual’s delirium impacts other people’s perceptions of the relationship. Who do you think will be waiting for you?” Or, “Tell me some nice things you remember about your mother.” Family members might be told that the patient has already undergone a sort of social death; though their body is present, the previous person they were is now gone, so a new relationship is required. My speculation is that the interpretive control promoted in Final Gifts reflects a cultural adaptation to dilemmas posed by delirium to a laissez parler approach to language at the end of life.
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