I have spent the last nine days nursing my brother as he struggled through the final days of liver cancer. He died today at 16:10 EST in Imbil Australia. It has been both a privilage and a harrowing experience to allow my brother to fulfil his wish of dying at home. In those nine days we spent a lot of time together, as he stuggled with his failing body. We spoke, often in brief and hoarse whispers, of life, family, history and the joke of existance. I will miss him.
@didgebaba Thanks for posting comment about this interesting experience.
The conversations at these stages of life interest me, what people remember to say or try wrap up in their mind, maybe don't have much to say at all, just the conversation in general...
So some of my thoughts here (if you don't mind read on...)
When younger I was always talking like others were passing even when they were healthy and a few times people wondered why! I said it was always good to speak about things before all that and even not let it linger as more layers get added to unfinished feelings, events, thoughts etc.
Wonder if you had any of the same or one's you'd wish to say / remembered after (could be good to get off your chest and interesting to say, excuse me if the asking is too much, could be later).
I also tried imagining how different feelings would be without these kinds of pictures. Because looking at pictures in general seem emotional, like seeing just a smaller form of yourself or others in the past... plays the strings on the heart.
People of the past maybe didn't have that as much without picture possible and as result might not see it as heavy for so long, as even I do from here... and even appreciate those living and move with them in their spirit / spirit of their loved one...
It is interesting and maybe they did have other ways of remember in #history.
Appreciate you writing here and I always tried to do the talking knowing I'm to go also...
Peace.
