A moment of life and death in a Washington restaurant
I’ll start in the middle, when not just Barbara’s heart has stopped, but time itself seems to have paused. Time is balanced on an invisible pivot, caught between two futures.Barbara is on the floor of La Piquette, a restaurant in Cathedral Heights. She has apparently choked on a piece of duck. The Heimlich maneuver has not worked. Barbara — 90 years old — is on her back, her face an alarming shade of blue.who on this Easter Sunday has gone to La Piquette for dinner with his wife.
Adrian has been pressing down rhythmically for something like three minutes. That may not seem long, but it is intense, physical work and it doesn’t seem to be doing any good for Barbara., whose birthday Barbara is celebrating with grandchildrenLater, memories will differ about what passes between Adrian and Ann in that instant. A comment? A look? A feeling? Whatever it is, it is in the manner of a question:Contained within that pause is an infinity. Barbara is no stranger to death.
Said Ann: “I think I immediately sat down my kids and said, ‘Let’s not think about this as we just almost lost grandma. Let’s think about it as we watched a bunch of people save your grandmother.’” She confronted the issue when she founded a hospice in Lansing, Mich. She thought about death when she protested against the war in Vietnam and when she moved to Washington in 1988 to lead a group devoted to nuclear disarmament.
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