What's the Ultimate Sacrifice?

"What's the ultimate sacrifice? It's something like that, the ultimate sacrifice of value," he says. "And hypothetically, that's the one that renews and redeems." The idea is that there's preme sacrifice demanded on the part of the mother, and there's a supreme sacrifice demanded on the parts of the son and father at the same time. If those three things don't happen, then it's cataclysmic, it's chaotic, it's hell....