Goodbye, dad. Godspeed.

Contemplations on witnessing the death of my father

Image: Author. Alan Michael Deane, 2.5.45–22.9.21

Getting a phone call at 3am is never good news.

As I emerged from my deep sleep and became aware of the ringing permeating around the house, I remembered that the phone next to the bed was disconnected. I had done so a few weeks before when it had started randomly bleeping in the night due to a battery fault…