title: Will to live.
abstract: Review of David Rieff's Swimming in a sea of death: a son's memoir. Rieff is the son of writer Susan Sontag.
authors.forename: Diane
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Johnson
authors.forename: John F
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Murray
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001293:Attitude to Death; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000266:history / Q000628:therapy; D005197:Famous Persons; D005260:Female; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans; D008408:Mastectomy / Q000266:history / Q000534:rehabilitation; D008875:Middle Aged; D009190:Myelodysplastic Syndromes / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000266:history / Q000401:mortality / Q000628:therapy; D019452:Terminally Ill / Q000266:history / Q000523:psychology*; D014481:United States