Dying, ready or not

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So many of you have expressed such kindness since my aunt passed away. We're getting the church ready, food cooked, flowers ordered, and extra chairs put in the sanctuary and fellowship hall where we'll serve lunch to the family and friends. My husband is feeling much better today, praise God for his mercy. We were at the church this morning setting up the sound system for my song tomorrow at the funeral when the system quit working! So my husband is wherever? trying to buy a replacement. Oh, man. But it will be fine. The important think to focus on will be my aunt and uncle and their family. My aunt suffered for quite a while before she died from complications of Alzheimers. It was a long, slow, fading away of a life. My father was young (44), strong, healthy, had just retired from the Coast Guard, looking forward to a new career when he was killed in an accident at work. One day he was fine, the next he was gone. I've wondered which was worse. Losing my father in such a shocking, instantaneous accident or my aunt's lingering "long goodby." Most of us don't have a choice in how we leave this earth, whether it will be quick (as probably most of us would choose), or suffering for so long. I guess we have to trust God for whatever the future brings to us. He promised he would never leave us or forsake us. But death comes to all of us in one way or another, ready or not.