"I know why we try to keep the dead alive: we try to keep them alive in order to keep them with us. I also know that if we are to live ourselves there comes a point at which we must relinquish the dead, let them go, keep them dead. Let them become the photograph on the table. Let them become the name on the trust accounts. Let go of them in the water. Knowing this does not make it any easier to let go of him in the water."

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Joan Didion was an American writer and journalist known for literary nonfiction and essays on American culture and politics. Her major works include Slouching Towards Bethlehem and The Year of Magical Thinking.

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