Watching Someone Die

Someone dead is easier than someone dying. Perhaps it is easier for the human heart to bear a final act than live through moments of finality.

Perhaps the hardest moments involve watching someone you love die a slow, painful death.

Watching someone die, someone loved most, knowing every moment past means another moment of togetherness slipping by. Perhaps it is in those moments human helplessness defines itself.

Every moment of losing someone you love most teaches you a rare kind of strength. It teaches you the strength of a private grief. It teaches you to face every other setback with a strength that surprises human weakness.