Death

Received the news that my secretary's mother passed away last night after just about 3 weeks of being diagnosed with liver cancer.

This few days have made me wonder what life is all about. Have been following up with her for the past 3 weeks when they just found out that their mum was diagnosed with cancer and how they can never find the right time and the courage to tell their mother about this. She never have the chance to know anyway when she breathed her last last nite.

Life is so unpredictable. Never in her children's wildest dream that their mother would go before their father who has been bedridden and nursed in a local nursing home for the past 1 year. I remembered last year when her father's condition was critical, they even made all the neccessary arrangements for his burial and all that......Life.....quoting Forrest Gump " Life is like a box of chocolate, you will never know what you will be getting inside"

Sigh........

I am going to the funeral parlour tomorrow for the paying of last respect....On this, i was asked a question: "eh, can u go to a buddhist funeral parlour ah since you are a christian?"

There is no place a Christian should not go.

On another death news, we have just lost a very elderly and committed priest (Fr Joachim Pang) on 13 July 2007. His funeral was yesterday and the church was filled to the brim. So, who say you will have no one to send you off if you die a single person??