Russell, Lori : One Last Time

Literature Annotations

Genre	Short Story (10 pp.)
Keywords	Abandonment, Cancer, Caregivers, Death and Dying, Disease and Health, Family Relationships, Grief, Illness and the Family, Mourning, Suffering
Summary	The wife of a man dying of cancer takes him to Yosemite for one last visit before his death. During this trip she thinks about how her life has been changed, both by marriage and by her husband's illness. Yosemite represented a tradition for them where they vacationed with their children each year. As the narrator reflects on how her life will change after her husband's death, and on the needs she has suppressed over the years, Yosemite begins to represent a new kind of tradition for her which will give her nurturance in the future.
Commentary	Useful for teaching how illness affects the family, and for how family members deal with death and dying.
Source	If I Had My Life to Live Over I Would Pick More Daisies
Publisher	Papier-Mache
Edition	1992
Editors	Sandra Haldeman Martz
Place Published	Watsonville, Calif.
Annotated by	Squier, Harriet A.
Date of Entry	01/05/96
Last Revised	11/24/98