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      The Invention of Dying

      Brooke Biaz

      Parlor Press

      Anderson, South Carolina

      www.parlorpress.com

      Parlor Press LLC, Anderson, South Carolina, USA

      © 2015 by Parlor Press.

      All rights reserved.

      Printed in the United States of America

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      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Biaz, Brooke.

      The invention of dying / Brooke Biaz. -- First edition.

      pages ; cm

      ISBN 978-1-60235-539-2 (softcover : acid-free paper)

      1. Death--Psychological aspects--Fiction. 2. Women physicians--Fiction. 3. Fear of death--Fiction. 4. Medical fiction. I. Title.

      PR9619.3.H324I58 2015

      823’.914--dc23

      2015019830

      Cover image by David Marcu. From Unsplash. Used by permission.

      Cover design by Lea Anna Cardwell.

      Printed on acid-free paper.

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      First Edition

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      To the Faculty and Staff of the Institute for the Medical Humanities, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas

      Contents

       Acknowledgments to the Deceased xi

      Our Story 3

      1a. The Facts About Dying 5

      1b. 1971: Dying and Love Go Hand in Hand 7

      1c. By the Chin 32

      2a. The Conception, Birth and Life of Death 36

      2b. Certain Sounds 44

      Waiting, 2012 48

      Our New Cemetery 53

      Death’s Arrival I 62

      Death Rides Again 68

      Five Final Hats 72

      Death’s Story 83

      A Note on Albert Einstein’s Brain 85

      A Nurse Considers Patients 90

      Death’s Story 100

      Making the Hospital 101

      A Treatise on Doctors Not Found in The Communion Islands 114

      Holoquet, The Anka River, The Communion Islands 120

      Our Story 127

      Still in Search 128

      Death’s Story 133

      Firstly, At the Beginning 134

      These Young Islands 139

      Outgoing Mail 148

      And Now a Doctor for The Communion Islands 153

      Me: Alternatively 157

      What a Women Looks Like When She Finally Turns Up 169

      A New Doctor in a New Town 176

      Vital Acknowledgments 185

      About the Images 187

      About the Author 193

      Figure 1.

      “I will prevent disease whenever I can, for prevention is preferable to cure.”

      —Modern Hippocratic Oath

      Nunc scio quid sit Amor

      —Virgil

      Acknowledgments to the Deceased

      I would like to thank the following dead persons for their insurgence, their altitude, and their peace:

      Quinton Frankton JJS

      Betty Lynn Linton, Communion Islands Community Hospital

      Dr Al Sharlton, Oleanna Paediatric Center, Philadelphia

      Professor Wendy Willeran NSTG

      Frankston Haran

      Sylvia Umperan CINN DDS

      Will T. Esveri

      Dr Thaxton Hight, of the Finton Memorial Hospital, Essex, England

      Wilfred Molle LicAc

      Professor Faust C. Nannacan

      Lois M. Bytels R.N.

      Hippocrates

      Tom Arnold PXA, National Eye Hospital, Dublin, Ireland

      Dr Graham Fericirini ME FGTT OS RT

      Professor Theresa Mathers RCOH

      Philip Thandercaul ACO

      Albert “Bert” Morrison

      Dr Neville Schwartz, the Connecticut Health Center at Merritt

      David Yonkers PSP, Akarana Rex Hospice, Auckland, New Zealand

      Dr Rex “Ranny” Rannicorn MD

      Zhang Zhongjing

      Sunnabaran Rhouli, Panapoon Hat Company

      Ivan Coyle Rudd

      Ursula Wanzt CINI, Communions Islands Community Hospital

      Samuel S__, Clerk, Communion Islands Government Offices

      Laveatia Trelp, Communion Islands Community Hospital

      Dr Eddie Simpson NSD

      All the characters living and dying in this novel are from The Communion Islands. I celebrate their contributions, and equally release them from responsibility for anything portrayed in the following work. To the members of The Communion Islands medical profession who made this possible: I salute you!

      Our Story

      Sleep widow’d eyes, and cease so fierce lamenting;

      Sleep grieved heart, and now a little reset thee:

      Sleep sighing words, stop all your discontenting;

      Sleep beaten breast; no blows shall now molest thee:

      Sleep happy lips; in mutuall kisses nest ye:

      Sleep weary Muse, and do not disease her:

      Fancie, do thou with dreams and his sweet presence

      please her.

      —P. Fletcher

      The Purple Island, Or The Isle of Man Together with Piscatorie Eclogs and other Poeticall Miscellanies, 1633.

      1a. The Facts

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