the human condition

By Mark Powell

tomorrow morning i will conduct the funeral of a sixty-four year old man. he was a husband and a church member, and he lived a troubled life, struggling with various physical and mental ailments. his wife came home from work last thursday and found him on the floor. the emergency technicians attempted to revive him, but she thinks he was probably already gone.

when she telephoned me, the emt’s were still at work on him and she was hysterical — who wouldn’t be?

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