Life and death 5.18.12

In less than a year, my mother has lost two sisters to illness. One to scleroderma and the other to a brain tumor. One fairly young (58) and the other much older (82). At 43, I understand that death is very much a part of this thing called life but it sucks, really sucks. Death will never be something you can plan for. Sure, you can make arrangements and get things in order but even when you know its coming, death hits you like a ton of bricks you were not prepared to hold.