Home No. 5

Lately, because of the book, people have been asking me what I know about life and death and also about helping people you love. I don’t know anything more than you do, unless you are a professional caregiver or social worker or therapist or spiritual leader or all-knowing being hovering in the sky (or wherever all-knowing beings hover), in which case you probably know vastly more than I do. What I believe (but do not necessarily know for sure) is you can’t help someone who doesn’t want to help themselves. You can beg and plead, you can cajole and flirt, you can manipulate, you can guilt - and you should definitely try all those things - but in the end, if someone is dead set on destruction, you should probably just get out of their way.