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epilogue
unfinished
Yale
eulogy
gravesite
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During her last days in the hospital Jane simply stopped eating, and I knew that her transition to another reality was near. I was with her when she died in her sleep at that early-morning hour in September 1984. As always, Seth had done his part, and more, as the record in The Way Toward Health shows. Yet he too acquiesced to Jane’s death when she made her decision to go. There were no protests on his part, no recriminations about his voice “being stilled forever,” for example. Nor did I feel any sort of rebellion — only a state of numb acceptance.
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Jane had been a devoted Catholic in her youth. Since she had died in a Catholic hospital, I called for a priest to speak at her bedside. I tried, but could not cry as he spoke: “Loving and merciful God, we entrust our sister to you. You loved her greatly in this life …” The priest promised to send me a copy of his eulogy.
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