Citations:long goodbye
English citations of long goodbye
Alzheimer's or Alzheimer's-related
edit- 1995 February 27, Tim Ryan, in “Love and Loss”, in People, volume 43, number 8:
- They call Alzheimer's the long goodbye. And the difficulty of the long goodbye is that you grieve from the moment you first hear about it, because it's incurable.
- 1999, Kevin Axe, "Saints Alive!" U.S. Catholic, vol. 64, no. 11:
- Then my father-in-law died of Alzheimer's in 1998, and my mother-in-law got the same disease. . . . We are grateful we get to be with her, to pray with her, to sing with her during her long goodbye.
- 2006, M. Vestergaard et al., "The Study of Alzheimer’s Disease Biomarkers," NanoBiotechnology, vol. 2, no. 1-2, p. 5:
- The disease is often referred to as the “Long-Goodbye” because the person with the illness slowly becomes lost to everyone a long time before the body finally gives out.
- 2009 May 9, “HBO's 'Alzheimer's Project' series explores the disease”, in Los Angeles Times:
- "I think of it as the long goodbye," said one Alzheimer's caregiver in the "Caregivers" segment.
- 2009 May 14, “Alzheimer's Hits People At Earlier Ages”, on KETV.com:
- They're hoping to hold off the long goodbye that Alzheimer's brings.
Prolonged departure
edit- 2004 April 6, “Palmer's last round recalls dubious start”, in Independent:
- He has had more swan songs than Tchaikovsky but yesterday Arnold Palmer prepared the ground for the long goodbye. Arnie will play in his final Masters,
- 2009 April 24, “Stop the fogey reunion tours now”, in Times Online:
- For the ageing rockers, the long goodbye is all about desperately making money — perhaps these resurrections are because their property investments have crashed.
- 2008 July 27, “Frances Whiting cracks the man code: they're laughing at us”, in NEWS.com.au:
- What I do know is that I heard Lizzy's husband, Steve, say to my husband, John: "Here we go mate, the long goodbye," whereupon they both fell about laughing. / The long goodbye? / Clearly this needed investigating. / "What's the long goodbye, darling?" I asked John the moment they pulled out of the driveway about an hour-and-a-half later. / "The what?" he said. / "Oh, don't act so innocent," I said, "I heard Steve saying it to you while I was talking to Lizzy." / "What are you, a bat?" he replied. / Anyway, I soon got it out of him – I tell you, one port at the end of a long night and that man will sing like a canary. The long goodbye, girls, is apparently what men call what we women do at the end of a dinner or a lunch or a chance meeting in the supermarket.
Other
edit- 2000, David Stripp, "Blessings from the Book of Life," Fortune, vol. 141, no. 5 (6 Mar):
- Gene-inspired drugs to blunt diseases of aging will begin arriving to help deal with the T. rex of demographic trends: the baby-boomers' long goodbye.