Then came the day mid-August when the expected happened.
Around 12:45, Logan received the call from Ruby, the nurse who had diligently taken care of Nicole for the past year. She was tearful over the phone and her voice wavered. “Logan, come home quick! Your mother is dying!”
“I’ll be right there,” Logan replied wounded with grief. He had prepared for this day. Yet, can anyone ever really prepare to say good-bye for the final time?
As he rushed out of the office, Logan experienced such sadness that he felt he couldn’t contain it. He felt like a child once again: Lost without his mother.
Even for a child who is an adult, losing your parent is like missing an essential part of the puzzle that forms your being.
Copyright 2006
Death is something everyone faces in his life. You are quite right losing your parent is dificult at any age. They do form the fabric of your life and without your mama or papa you do feel a part of your past is lost. Then again death is part of life. It needs to be accepted.
Some people like the controversial Aubrey de Grey believes that with new medical and scientific wonders in time life will be extended……I think he asserts in the next 10 years. Eventually humanity will also conquer death and people would no longer die from physical body growing old or being damaged over time at a cellular level. Death would only happen from an accident.
At any rate with the finality of death, life then becomes important each lived moment because who knows which moment will be the last. Sounds depressing, doesn’t it?
Well actually knowing the truth about death allows life to be lived more fully so that we savour it in all ways with love, joy, happiness and good humour.
I lost my mother to cancer some two years ago and that loss feels as real today as then. Of course, she is always alive in my heart–her spirit is with me like an enduring memory and presence.
I am so glad to hear that you have an ongoing conscious connection with your Mother even though she passed away two years ago.
A very close friend of mine passed on suddenly at an early age over ten years ago, and yet I feel that she also will always remain alive in my heart as well. This speaks to me of the reality of connectedness.
Does anyone really have all of the answers about what happens when we die? It seems to me that there is a certain degree of mystery always around this topic.
I feel that even in face of death life goes on.
I agree very much with what Helene has said.
Death, to me, is not something to be conquered but embraced as an important part of life. When one looks at life as a whole, one must include death as a “phase” in life. All is one.
Whether there is life after death, who knows? But what we do know is that the sweetness of life is made possible by the sorrow of death. This, of course, brings us back to the age-old saying of without night there would be no day, without black no white and so on.
I think there are much more important endeavors we should be concentrating on rather than ways to cheat death. Cures for cancer, perhaps?
In cheating death we are only cheating ourselves out of the glorious beauty of a pink sunset, the beautiful sound of a childs laughter or the peacefulness of a quiet walk in the woods.
What insightful comments about death, thank you Leah.
Yes, I agree with you that death is not something to be conquered but rather embraced…this idea is the theme of my poem called ‘Sacred Circle’ that is also posted on this site…