sentences:  She lamented the loss of vision in an interview, calling it a tragedy because she could no longer read and also lost her independence.Josefina Vicens died on November 22, 1988, just one day short of her 78th birthday.In one of a series of interviews conducted in 1987 and 1988, Vicens expressed that she hoped to feel her death, as she wanted to be conscious of this transit from life to death.