The Demand to Live

The death trade, as I learned it and saw it, is there
principally to deliver on the demand to live.

It's beyond an expectation. It's an inalienable right.

And if the endings of your life are coming to call

and you wake up every day demanding to live,

you are likely to be in a circumstance of adversity,

not companionship. And that is a culturally-derived,

deep-running error that means you no good.

Stephen Jenkinson