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He added: “As you may know, an incurable illness like this is a lot like war. There are
moments of panic and anxiety, separated by hours of tedium.”
Sometimes Ms. Newman gave Mr. Simon, and by extension some of his 1.2 million
Twitter followers, a reason to smile or chuckle: “Believe me,” she told him on Saturday,
“those great deathbed speeches are written ahead of time.” Sometimes, she seemed to
want Mr. Simon to share bits of advice. On Sunday, he encapsulated this thought from
his mother: “Listen to people in their 80s. They have looked across the street at death
for a decade.”
Mr. Simon resumed posting to Twitter on Tuesday; he jocularly recounted how the
couple who run a cremation service call themselves “posthealth professionals.” During
the interview on Wednesday he cried while expressing thanks for the “love and support
and prayers” from people. He said he had given precisely no thought to the societal
implications of sharing his mother’s life and death.
But others have. “We have reached a point in the way we think about our lives where
our stories of struggle and loss feel like they no longer belong solely to us,” said Joe
Lambert, founder of the Center for Digital Storytelling in Berkeley, Calif. Being able to
broadcast them, on Twitter or elsewhere online, “feels like a gift to those grieving in our
families, our communities and as far as a tweet might reach.”
A version of this article
DRAFT
appeared in print on August 1, 2013, on page C1 of the New
York edition with the headline: Goodbyes And Grief In Real Time.
Task 8. Browsing through Journals
April 10, 2014
Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/01/business/media/goodbyes‐and‐grief‐in‐realtime.html?ref=deathanddying&_r=0
Identify the main idea of the article and its supporting details by filling in the
spider map below. Do this in a separate sheet of paper.