work Is Done
She died yesterday afternoon.
Her husband, my doctor and longest standing friend, consulted with his colleagues and they agreed she had done all they could ask.
So they resolved to let her heart join her consciousness in whatever ecstasy it is we experience when our struggling minds release us to some state we fear and long for. We all wish we might know more about it before we are called on to do it, but this is the order in which these things come.
With a little help from morphene, her heart accepted the verdict the rest of her had embraced a couple of days earlier.
Her husband and I have been friends for 50 years, since we were 16 year old schooboys and she was his steady girlfriend.
Her daughter held her hand as she drew her final short easy breath. As we left her room her daughter said she was no longer afraid of dying.
One final glorious gift among so many she had given to so many.
Her husband, my doctor and longest standing friend, consulted with his colleagues and they agreed she had done all they could ask.
So they resolved to let her heart join her consciousness in whatever ecstasy it is we experience when our struggling minds release us to some state we fear and long for. We all wish we might know more about it before we are called on to do it, but this is the order in which these things come.
With a little help from morphene, her heart accepted the verdict the rest of her had embraced a couple of days earlier.
Her husband and I have been friends for 50 years, since we were 16 year old schooboys and she was his steady girlfriend.
Her daughter held her hand as she drew her final short easy breath. As we left her room her daughter said she was no longer afraid of dying.
One final glorious gift among so many she had given to so many.
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