Death seems to take people at anytime. It's a silent killer when it wants to be. My uncle Pop was at home in his kitchen window as his girlfriend tells it. He was in the sink washing a shirt. Before he had known it he was dead. Shot in the through the window. Not knowing that he would leave all those who cared the most about him behind.

My grandfather just a week in advance had found out that he had cancer. The doctors at the time when it could have been treated didn't know what they were talking about. If they did he could have been saved. By the time my mother had taken him to the doctors and they had found out that it was in fact cancer. They told him that it was to late and he had a week to live. Of course when doctors say the they don't really seem to know. He lived at least a month.
Have you ever watched someone you love die? Well those of you who have know what it's like. It's a feeling of is this really happening to me mixed with a feeling of hurt and pain.
My mother had gone to the work after taking three months off to help her father. My aunt was there watching us. He had asked to go to the bathroom and could not hardly walk, because the cancer was in his legs. My brother taking on shoulder and me the other, walked him to the bathroom. I waited outside of the bathroom. My brother called me from the inside of the door. I opened it and saw his trying to carry our grandfather by himself. I grabbed the other side like before, but this time we had to carry him, because he was not walking. We put him on the bed and my aunt called my cousin. He rushed over to see what was wrong. My grandfather dieing. I stood and watched as my cousin gave him mouth to mouth and shouted on the phone to 911 on what to do next. When they got there they tried to shock him, but there was no bringing him back. I watched my grandfather die that day and that is the most pain then if i wouldn't have been there. The one and only man that i felt was my father and he was taken from me. It was strange for me to stand there and not be able to do anything. What could i have done? Nothing what can you do when death strikes other then sit there and watch.

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