:::the choice

actually the decision was not easy either.


although i had prepared for the inevitability, moving in to my parents' house, giving up a home, declining to teach summer school, searching for his final "resting place," informing all the relatives, etc., when it came time for me to give the final go-ahead to the doctors, the verdict's massive weight suffocated my soul.


i alone was elected to execute my father's death sentence.