Death in the Family

An image of a wreath of white flowers with a lone candle in the background. Image generated with Opera's Aria AI. My aunt died last night. She has been sick for some time now and I knew that they rushed her to the hospital the night before because she was having difficulty breathing so her death didn’t exactly come as a shock. She had a myocardial infarction but her body has long since been weakened by cancer. I was woken up very early in the morning not by the usual sound of my 3 alarm clocks getting off (2 alarm clocks set to go off 10 minutes apa…