Reflections of a Young Man Who Witnessed the Slow Deaths of His Loved Ones

The illuminating act of death and what it’s taught me about living.

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There I sit, in the chair across from the hospital bed, on the night of my senior high-school homecoming dance. Never would have I thought I’d be in this position. Yet…here I am. Barely able to wrap my adolescent head around…