Sex and Grief Pt. 1

Feeling alive at any cost

Detail from The Return of Persephone by Frederic Leighton (1891)

My father will probably die within the next week. He is currently in the local hospice, in a comfortable room with a large TV and kind, bustling nurses, living out his final days as his body quietly shuts down. I am sitting in his favourite chair at home, counting down the minutes until I d…