Chris Bradbury

The Stilling of the Heart Chris Bradbury

'Only by living on his terms could he die a satisfactory death, for even death had to have a meaning, as much as life, for birth and death were the beginning and end of the sentence and one had to fill that sentence with meaningful words. If one did not, then that death, that apex, would mean nothing and it had to mean everything. If it did not, if death meant nothing, if it was merely the cessation of breath, the stilling of the heart, then it was wasted. One could waste death no more than one could waste life. Only by a good death, a contented death, could one know that one had lived a good life, a life fulfilled. Of course, he was still searching.' So Christian Tassin decides to find the only thing that would give his life meaning - a good death.