When Ursula awakens after her operation, she finds herself not in her hospital bed but in the OR looking down on herself from above-and she realizes that there is no death ... and that "death is a truly simple matter." Unlike her life. Here Ursula always had to fight: as a child, for her mother's love and approval; as a woman, for the love of men, with the feeling that she didn't deserve happiness; as a single mother, against her own guilt feelings;...