In this week’s Modern Love essay, “Young, Gay and Single Among the Nuns and Widows,” Kevin Hershey describes the six weeks he spent tending to his Irish grandmother in her Catholic senior living apartment.
Mr. Hershey’s grandmother had decided to die by starvation.
A recent college graduate without a job or much of a purpose, Mr. Hershey decided to be there for her as she ended her life on her own terms.
