I'm Leaving You
It had been coming for six years but neither of us had ever really accepted it would arrive – Sandy’s death – that last breath, that last gasp, followed by the quiet stillness where the gap between this existence and the next is sensed within your soul. You feel it surround you and then slowly fade from your heart as if the torch of life has finally and slowly run out of power.
This was the end my children and I bravely faced together at our home in our bed just as Sandy wanted, with the ones she and I together brought into this world.
Sandy had breast cancer which mestastized to her bones and finally invaded her brain. She died peacefully, if there is such a state, at home 4.30am on April 10th 2009, Good Friday surrounded by the love of her close family.
The pain of embracing my dying lover lives with me forever – it was a responsibility given by one human to another as her wish was for her life to end in the arms of those who received her love. It remains the most important gift you could ever give and I feel at peace knowing we gave it.
I hope you can use this story to reflect on your own life and celebrate each and every day just like we did.

Bob Craig