Tuesday, June 10, 2008

7. Under what circumstances have you been closest to death?

"Some kind of virus" was their final diagnosis. Dehydration. Renal failure. Extremely low blood pressure. She was 25.

I can't look at her. I can barely walk out the door. I wake up at 4am vomiting.

At the funeral I lay my hand on her cold forehead. I don't remember hitting the floor.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Wow. That's quite powerful.

Mike said...

It's a combination of a three different events, one involving me. The other two involved the death of family members.