(year of birth unknown)
U.S. author and journalist
Dudley Clendinen
We obsess in this country about how to eat and dress and drink, about finding a job and a mate. About having sex and children. About how to live. But we don’t talk about how to die. We act as if facing death weren’t one of life’s greatest, most absorbing thrills and challenges. Believe me, it is.
“The Good Short Life,” The New York Times, July 9, 2011.