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Why we are never ready for death

 

In January, I wrote about the emotional strain my family was going through while coping with the pain cancer had caused my wife and I. Sadly, Shamsa passed away on Thursday. If you recall, the doctors had ruled that no more treatment would change her situation; that we had come to the end of the road. Our worlds, I said then, had crashed.

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