Voices from the Dark

Abstract

While visiting the severely ill in the West Vir inia mountains, the author came to know two people, Dennis Hal f and Elizabeth Wright. Dennis has battled multiple sclerosis for a third of his life and is now living his last days in a nursing home. Elizabeth, despite the amyotropic lateral sclerosis that had deteriorated her muscles and eventually caused her death, discovered a richness in her suffering. In their struggles against suffering and dying, these people reveal something about that which endures.