on reckoning with the fact of one's death
- Written by Kevin John Brophy, Emeritus Professor of Creative writing, University of Melbourne
shutterstockA friend is sending me documents needed to make me the executor of his will. He does not expect to die from this pandemic but he has enough weaknesses in his body to be fairly sure he would not survive the virus if it gets to him. He is not as old as I am but he is not young either. He is clear-sighted enough to know what he must do...





