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Once a human being is dead there are people enough to provide the last decencies; perhaps it is so because only then can there be no question of further or recurring assistance being sought.

“The connections that survive do so in compelling ways. … The depiction of the women in Jeanette and Carmen’s family is confident and layered, capturing their decencies and failings.”

Nor, in many cases, are they accorded the simple decencies that are part of formal employment.

It’s all rather consoling in an era where . . . well, we shouldn’t ever take such decencies for granted.

It is sad that in political life, recognizing and naming actions that are unethical get parsed into legalisms, forgetful of the roots of law – our common human practices and decencies.