ABSTRACT
John Carroll engages with the existential authority of story in guiding human beings toward nuggets of truth. His writings trace the tragedy of the quotidian and the existential fragility of living a meaningful life in the face of death without God, salvation or redemption. In the spirit of homage to Carroll’s embrace of aesthetics and the importance of story, this chapter closely reads the extraordinary film Amour (2012) by the Austrian auteur Michael Haneke where the question “how should we die?” is a deeply moving, unsettling provocation about how and when to die or give death to a beloved.
