Back in the days when I worked at the coffee store in Berkeley (see Flying Blind), I met a German nurse. She confided that, some years earlier, her brother-in-law had been in the painful end-stage of terminal cancer and, at his request, she injected him with a lethal dose of morphine. I wasn’t sure why … Continue reading An Obvious Choice
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St Patrick’s Day musings on the Tower of London
Church of St Peter ad Vincula at the Tower of London©Roxane Gilbert Gerald Fitzgerald, 9th Earl of Kildare (1487-1534) has the dubious distinction of being the first prisoner to be buried in the Chapel Royal of St Peter ad Vincula after being incarcerated and dying in the Tower of London. Upon his father’s death in … Continue reading St Patrick’s Day musings on the Tower of London
Roxane Gilbert 