He spends all his remarkable eloquence in trying to persuade her, that she must forget this world entirely and only try to gain the favor of Osiris and the judges of the nether world by ceaseless prayers and sacrifices.

In this manner he only tortures our poor sick child, for she has not lost her love of life.
Perhaps I have still too much of the Greek left in me for a queen of Egypt; but really, death is so long and life so short, that I cannot help calling even wise men foolish, when they devote the half of even this short term to a perpetual meditation on the gloomy Hades.
"I have just been interrupted again.

Our great physician, Thutmes, came to enquire after his patient.

He gives very little hope, and seems surprised that her delicate frame has been able to resist death so long.
He said yesterday: 'She would have sunk long ago if not kept up by her determined will, and a longing which gives her no rest.

If she ceased to care for life, she could allow death to take her, just as we dream ourselves asleep.