Confessions of a Human Nerve Ending

Eulogy There are worse ways to be remembered: a manilla folder in a file clerk’s hand, a mug shot behind the detective's desk, a floating corpse in a flooded stream a broken gravestone in the cemetery soon grated over for an interstate. You’re remembered now. Not by your dead parents: alcoholic, or your brother: still drinking every morning, noon and night, or your sister: shooting up. You: a "wild catter" from the oilfields of West Texas, who partied as much as you could until shooting up speed gave you Hep C 40 years old, and you didn't know what else to do. You’re remembered now. by doctors: as methodology, by actors: a case study to memorize and by med students: a way to practice interviewing. What would happen if you loaded the happy people on one side of a scale and put the unhappy people on the other? Would the happy people even move it, make it budge? Stuck at the top looking down even the happy would become unhappy when the...