This week, I wrote a stage play called "Sleep Will Come." It is about a girl named Madeleine who has brain cancer and decides that she'd rather die than live out the rest of her life in a hospital bed. Madeleine and her brother, Danny, try to persuade their mother into allowing this. They play is entitled "Sleep Will Come" because I associate sleep with tranquility and a certain sense of enlightenment, which is a recurring theme. Madeleine was sure of what she wanted and it gave her a peace of mind. In fact, I think that it was the assurance that eternal sleep will come soon that allowed her to go on. I believe that no matter how you die, everyone receives a relief of some kind in the end.
“After all to the well organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.”-Albus Dumbledore
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