At least, I THOUGHT I had created the character.
That’s when I created the character of Luke Warren – a man who studies wolves not by observing them, but by living with them. I didn’t know how, but it seemed to me that there was a metaphor in here that was going to work with the story I was trying to tell. One morning I woke up thinking about wolves: how they seem to function as a family how the group is more important than the whole.
But what about the father himself – the man whose life was hanging in the balance? I knew right away that one of the characters involved in the decision would be a prodigal son with a secret in his past and that his sister would be the more faithful child…who was too young to have a legal say in the decision. So I called that neurologist and said… “Remember me?” Luckily, he did! That led me to wonder what would happen if two children were fighting over whether or not to terminate life support for their parent.
I said, “I’m not ready to write this book now, but one day I will be, so remember my name…because I’ll come calling!” Eventually, years later, I started mulling over the fact that although we often hear about parents and spouses who differ in their opinions about life sustaining care for a victim of a serious brain trauma, we rarely hear about two parties who have an equal claim to that decision. I was sitting next to a neurologist who dealt with these sorts of issues all the time. I first thought about writing about the right to die when I was on a plane over a decade ago.
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