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Josh Slocum's avatar

I did my duty and sat with Steve, and told him the reasons I Ioved him and the family. Today was both wonderful and terrible, and selfishly, I'm grateful I get to go home at night and be alone.

After I tape the show tomorrow I will go back. Steve is likely to die overnight, but the family will keep the body at home for a day as is old tradition so that everyone can spend time, or not, as they wish, and accommodate themselves to it.

We had Lisa laid out at home for a day and overnight before we called the funeral home. We would have done the burial ourselves by hand, but she had wanted to donate her body to the medical school. I don't know if it will be cremation or med school for Steve.

We'll have a shorter window tomorrow, as the weather is very hot and there's no air conditioning at the Carlson house (they're hippie eco freaks, god love 'em. I don't think the solar panels have enough juice lol!).

Remember: you do not have to call a funeral home until you're ready. It's fine to die at home and have the corpse there in bed, or in a coffin if you have one, for as long as people need to say goodbye. You call the undertaker when you're ready; there is no clock ticking, and there is no legal requirement to call 911 for an elderly, expected death.

Tonight is the blessed peace of a whole milligram of Klonopin.

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Jennifer Terry's avatar

Bless you, Josh. ❤️

You are the best kind of human.( And thanks for making me cry on my lunch break.)

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