Monday, June 27, 2011

This is mortality.

Today I visited an officer given about one month to live. She has stage 4 terminal breast cancer.

She has a freaking memo from the doctor stating she has a few weeks to a month to live.

And she's all ready. She has settled all her bills, she's bought her place in the crematorium. The only thing she hasn't settled was the very thing I had to go and talk to her about. And there I was in her face reminding her of her mortality.

She was so brave, smiling and going on, serving me water being so frank and open. She has wonderful friends around her. Being next to her, helping her in these final days. It's from here I can see what a wonderful person she must have been, still is, to have made such strong friends. I can only hope to develop relationships as precious and as meaningful as her.




And at the end of it all she thanked me.