Open AccessEl aliento de la vida
Author(s) -
Sandra Buechler
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
clínica e investigación relacional
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1988-2939
DOI - 10.21110/19882939.2021.150102
Subject(s) - hatred , psychology , covid-19 , psychoanalysis , criminology , history , sociology , political science , law , medicine , disease , pathology , politics , infectious disease (medical specialty)
In today's cruel times, human beings struggle to breathe for avoidable and unavoidable reasons. Some are victims of racial hatred and police brutality. Some have been struck down by COVID 19 and die an agonizing, lonely, labored death. I am asking whether some might be spared the horror of helplessly fighting for that most elemental necessity, the breath of life. And, maybe, some of their partners might be spared the unbearable memory of being asked "Why won't you help me?"