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Memory & Beyond

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 September 2006

SIMON WEIN
SIMON WEIN
Affiliation:
Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Victoria, Australia
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Extract

Fear is born of knowledge.

A child will as innocently play with a snake as a teddy bear. A young adult as naively dabble with love as life itself.

Bearing a child is as close as we get to original Creation—something from nothing. Creating a child creates an iredeemable future and changes forever the fabric of life. Procreation can thereby come to symbolize immortality. A symbolic way of cheating our inevitable common-fate, if you like. Love, a mechanism to preserve this symbol, worms its way into the heart and settles there. It flourishes faithfully without fear or doubt, nourishing the parent-child dyad.

Type
ESSAYS/PERSONAL REFLECTIONS
Information
Palliative & Supportive Care , Volume 4 , Issue 3 , September 2006 , pp. 315 - 316
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© 2006 Cambridge University Press

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