Act 2, Part 1 Summary

A lies in bed, her face covered with an oxygen mask (this is in fact a mannequin dressed to look like A). B and C come in, look down at A and see there has been no change. C talks about how hard it is to consider death, while B talks about the various ways in which it can come to anyone. Their conversation reveals that they are actually both A at earlier stages of her life. C sits down to write a living will so that she will not face the drawn out, painful deterioration A has faced. A herself appears, comments that "he" kept reminding her to write a living will, and adds that she never got around to it. She looks down at herself in the bed and hopes her ending will be quick, commenting that a friend...