I am sick, I must die . . . .

thorold: In this book, Monette writes about his partner's illness and death: see "Borrowed time" for his own experience with AIDS

bluepiano: A famous French writer writes about living in the constant pain of tertiary syphilis.

bluepiano: Flanagan was a perfomance artist with cystic fibrosis who lived for decades longer than doctors had predicted. This journal was written in his final year. There's a good documentary film about him made near the end of his life as well.

bluepiano: Wertenbaker, a journalist, had terminal colon cancer; this is the detailing of his illness by his wife, also a journalist.

bluepiano: The book is actually by Cornelius Ryan's wife, but it includes many excerpts from a journal her husband secretly kept over the course of the illness.

thorold: One of the few autobiographies in which the author describes his own death...