O Death Rock Me Asleep

The last week, I've been thinking about death.  Yes the usual "O death! O death rock me asleep..."  But also about how my parents could die at any moment.  They will be 74 this year.  How they may or may not live another 20 years.  Heck! I may not live another 20 years!  

I've been reading a book by Kay Redfield Jamison called "Touched with Fire"- a 260+ page book about artistic people and madness- specifically bipolar.  Of depression, but of the type that manic-depressives get.  (It is somewhat different than unipolar depression.)  Lots of quotes by famous artists and writers and musicians and commentary in between.   The speak of bleakness and of blackness and of Spring flowers still causing depression against the mania you'd think they would evoke.  

All of this is mildly triggering for me but it is also fascinating.  

I am also reading Virus Hunter by C.J. Peters.  A timely read though it was written in the 90's.  Its about the author's 30 years in dealing with "hot" viruses like the Hanta virus, Ebola, and Marburg.   I found something else he wrote in pdf format online but I haven't gotten around to reading it.  I hope there are still people like him doing his job about.  We definitely need them! https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/10.1146/annurev-virology-031413-085401 

https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/10.1146/annurev-virology-031413-085401