“Just let me die in peace,” she told Constance. “She really needed to feel that control,” Constance told me, “to know that she had power over this situation. “I think she could have done without the extra two weeks of pain,” Constance told me. The oncologist informed Josée any treatment would only extend her life by months, possibly a year: Josée declined. Josée and Constance went to see “Ru,” a Québécois film adaptation of Kim Thúy’s novel about a Vietnamese immigrant’s journey to Canada.