Life is Unpredictable

11 January, 2006

Remember the case of Terri Schiavo who died 13 days after the removal of the feeding tube she had for 15 years? I tell you what.. she was not alone. Many people have similar cases that might not be necessarily brought up to controversy issue like Terri had. One of them is Darren's dad who died 30 minutes after his life support was cut off regarding to the family decision. He is such a dad to my hubby and his son, Darren, is his best buddy ever since childhood. We got this bad news last Sunday from Darren himself who made several calls just to express how sad he was. Darren and I talked a lot about religion and church particularly how important to keep faithful to God. Sadly he told me that he and family have never been to the church for a very long time. That's why they had difficult time to find any priest who would give the Sacrament of Extremeunction or Anointing of the Sick, usually is given to the dying to prepare him or her for a happy passage to the hereafter. A good thing is everything for funeral ceremony has been settled finally with Catholic ritual because his dad was raised in Catholic tradition.


After talking a while, he decided to going back to the church together with his family. I hope he keeps his words in reality. Well, sometimes people just think about God when they have problem or when they are in troubles or tragedy. They leave God when they reach prosperity or they live in wealth. They don't understand that all their prosperity and wealth they have are temporarily exist and they could be gone sooner or later. On the other hand, God is eternal, loves everyone unconditional, and has always existed no matter what.


Back to Darren's dad.. I met him once when we helped out Darren and family moving in to their new house last Spring. Both his parents were a good couple. He said in his last email "we will always consider both of you a part of our family. You're welcome here anytime no matter where "here" is". He signed my guestbook at our photo gallery and he put our wedding picture in his web page. Darren told us that his dad loves us, especially my hubby, very much. Unfortunately we couldn't go up Kentucky yesterday for his funeral. We just sent our deep condolences to Darren and family on their loss of their beloved father. Anyhow we keep a good memory with him and the last word we could say "May he rest in peace". For Darren and family, may they find comfort and strength in their memories of the father.