Getting prepared...

...mentally, for a family death.

Death is not the word we say; but we all know it. The doctors said they had already done everything they could.

We are calm. Of course, we are not the most immediate family. I don't know what Aunt and Cousin Alan are thinking. I don't know how they are coping.

We all have to go through it, this getting prepared thing. But then, we also know that you can never get really prepared. When death comes, even when it has made its announcement beforehand, one always feels shocked and lost.

I hope they are coping.