HOW TERRIFYING

Today a friend told me that an acquaintance that I had known many many years ago is in the hospital dying. She is in a drug-induced coma, is on a respirator, had both heart and kidney failure and the friend was told that she will not make it. The sad thing is is that she is only 67 years old.

The sadder part of this story is that she has no one to handle her arrangements after she is gone.
Oh my God how sad and terrifying is that? She does have family, but one of them is sickly herself and can't make the trip from California and the others have yet to come forth and probably won't. To think that someone has lived all those years and at the end, he/she will die alone.

Who will see to the funeral and burial arrangements? Will she be treated as some "Jane Doe" and left for the county to bury her? Will there be no eulogy, will there be no kind words of remembrance, will there be no tears at her passing? It almost seems surreal that this can happen to someone. How horribly sad it is to think that there is no one on this earth to complete her life cycle.

Even though my family and I have had our problems and had been estranged for a few years, I know that if I had died, one of them would have stepped up to the plate and taken care of things. Now that relationships have been reestablished, I could die peacefully in the knowledge that I would be properly taken care of after my death.

I can't think of anything sadder that what is happened to this woman. I am so grateful I have family who cares.

ANSWER TO LAST TRIVIA QUESTION: What was the “That frosty mug sensation”? a mug of A & W root beer
TODAY'S TRIVIA QUESTION: Sputnik II which carried a dog. What was its name?
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: Do not disturb. Already disturbed