Citations:long goodbye

English citations of long goodbye

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.

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.

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.