I wrote about this on another thread, but it was:
Seeing my wheelchair-bound father stand next to his daughter’s open coffin, touch her face one last time, and say, “Sweetie, it’s supposed to be me in that box.”
He didn’t know I was in the room too. He had been sick for years and was unable to walk anymore. He could just move from his bed to his wheelchair. His daughter-my sister-died very unexpectedly at age 34.
The funeral was supposed to begin at 1pm, but my father wanted to go early to make sure everything was prepared for the visitors. So he used his mechanical wheelchair to get himself to the funeral home (which was just down the block) before everyone else.
I got there about ten minutes later. I walked into the room and stopped when I saw him standing up. I hadn’t seen him do that in years. I was also in shock at the sight of my dead sister. I hadn’t seen her for three years before her death.
After he said that to her, I walked out of the room. He never knew I witnessed that.
But I knew then that he was going to give up his fight against his disease. Which he did. He had been fighting hard to regain some strength in his legs and start walking again. After that day, he quit trying. He was dead within a year.
My parents had already bought two grave sites for themselves. My sister ended up getting one, and my father got cremated so he could go next to her, but also leave room for my mother’s cremated remains when her time comes. (They can put two boxes of cremated remains in one plot here.)
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