2 years ago, conversations with cousins

'So, what's wrong with him?'

'He's dying.'

...of what?

'Not being able to die. Like St Therese.' 

'What are you even talking about?'

'Well, the doctors have made it pretty clear it isn't the cancer killing him. I mean...it's sheer stubbornness at this point. The geriatric anorexia has gone to far.'

'Well, Sh*t.'