When A Daughter Dies

A physician relates his experience of watching his daughter die of cancer:

“A Greek aphorism warns, ‘Call no man happy until he is dead.’ A calamity that I hoped/presumed never would occur now seems likely – I am going to outlive one of my children. I am very unhappy, and my wife asks if we will ever be happy again.”

Source: Freakonomics
Published: Oct 16, 2012
Length: 8 minutes (2,140 words)