An Excerpt from Voices from Chernobyl by Svetlana Alexievich:Lyudmilla Ignatenko, wife of deceased fireman Vasily Ignatenko
They showed her to me -- a girl. "Natashenka," I called out. "Your father named you Natashenka." She looked healthy. Arms, legs. But she had cirrhosis of the liver. Her liver had twenty-eight roentgens. Congenital heart disease. Four hours later they told me she was dead. And again: "We won't give her to you." "What do you mean you won't give her to me? It's me who won't give her to you!"