It's been awhile...so many things have taken place during this stretch of time that I've not posted anything here...
My youngest uncle passed away on the night of 8 Aug, just before Nat'l Day...after finally battling and losing the fight against nasal cancer...he first began the fight for his life sometime in 1997...after chemo and all the necessary treatments...he was given the clear...then unexpectedly the diesease came back...after 5 years...and then it was decline all the way...when he passed away, he was hardly more than a bag of skin and bones...by the time I (and most of us) reached the hospital, he was gone...only a handful of us were with him before he left...I felt a little shocked when I heard that it was the doctor's delay that may possibly have robbed him of another chance of living...he passed away due to shortness of breath...and a houseman/apprentice/whatever-they-are-called was there but apparently didn't deem fit to take emergency measures...i remember feeling immensely sad when I reached and saw his still body lying on the bed....and everyone else crying....even now the image still make me feel sad...
I feel sad that he had to suffer so much for so long before he's relieved of his pain....and I feel sad that he's not given the chance to fight and to win the fight....
Well...the next few days went by in a flurry of activities...the funeral arrangments....rites....the final day....Friday....the coffin was cremated at Mandai....was the first time I saw a cremation process....next day we went back to collect the bones....felt a little surreal....like all that's left of his body was a pile of white bones....pretty much like chalk....somehow just felt that I wasn't able to reconcile the facts....
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