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Article Excerpt
Oh threats of Hell and Hopes of
Paradise! One thing is certain--This Life flies; One thing is certain and the rest is Lies; The Flower that once has blown for ever dies. --The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayam of Naishapur
My father and mother had been married for over fifty years, and when her life farce was defeated by cancer, my father, whose health was failing, apparently made a conscious decision not to go on without her. He had a very strong mind, and it is very likely he willed his heart to stop beating.
It was then my sister Jean and I were faced with an ethical dilemma. He and my mother had wanted their bodies to be cremated because they did not believe in unnecessarily taking up space in the earth. However, Dad's two surviving sisters insisted we ship the corpse to Illinois so they could have "proper services" and an open-casket funeral. They sent train tickets for Jean, myself, and the shipping casket.
We foolishly acquiesced.
Since Jean and I wanted no...
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