My paternal aunt passed away last week from the effects of pancreatic cancer. She was visibly in pain but she requested to return home to be with family rather than stay at the hospital. She was bedridden and mostly laid on her side due to pain.
Despite this she was described to be alert and communicated well till her last breath. She remained fully conscious of her body and made a final action to lie straight in bed, clasp her hands, and let the breath depart.
She left a graceful sign for those who witnessed it.
Grace in the face of death is fearlessness, knowing there is no death.
- "I am the resurrection and the life; whoever believes in me, even if he dies, will live, and everyone who lives and believes in me will never die."
- -- John 11: 25-26
"When conditions are sufficient things manifest."- "When we understand that we cannot be destroyed, we are liberated from fear."
- "Walking slowly in the moonlight through the rows of tea plants, I noticed my mother was still with me."
- "Just because we do not perceive something, it is not correct to say it doesn’t exist."
- -- Thich Nhat Hanh
