It was during a conference at the University of Montreal that the writers Mathieu Bélisle and Alain Vadeboncoeur were invited to discuss death, in its philosophical, literary, scientific, political and spiritual dimensions. From their professional position – that of literature for the first, and of medicine for the second – the two men exchange, revived by Catherine Mavrikakis, in a debate like no other: open, moving, under construction, here replicated in text form. According to a logic that only thought can organize, they address in turn the family, the construction of memories, rituals, illness, medical assistance in dying and real and represented agony. The reader is here part of the conversation, invited to engage his thoughts, to give meaning to what very often seems to have no meaning – life itself – and, consequently, to cultivate all its beauty and mystery. . Someone needs to speak is a fantastic plea for the importance of speech and a precious opportunity to reconnect with this almost lost art of introspection.
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