When I kissed my father-in-law’s forehead goodbye
recently, it had gone cold. We had come
to say a rosary before his body was taken to be cremated. No one was in there
anymore.
Congestive
Heart Failure
was suspected. Flu was written on the hospital death
certificate. In 1980 after a heart attack, he had been given 1-3 more years to
live, but his spirit had stayed in his body for another 35 years.