Moments Before Death

Few days back I had a very restless night... I got a call from my mother at 11pm..the ring on my phone gave me an uncanny chill down my spine, this must be a bad news. and to my expected shock I was told that my distant sister had died last night. She was a nice soul and was suffering from thallesmia. what shook the hell out of me was the description she gave me of her last moments. Let me tell you that in words which best possible describes it.. She was admitted with all kinds of internal organ failure and it was certain that this is her last time.. till evening all members of her family were besides her and she was awake..but due to some stroke of luck, it was decided that all of them would go back home and come back next day morning, this included her mother and own sister. I still don't know why they agreed and left the dying woman alone in the cold and dark ICU... At around the stroke of midnight, she started suffering insurmountable pain and she struggled to call the duty nurse by sign language...somehow she pointed to the nurse to get the diary from under her pillow which had the phone numbers. The nurse got hold of few numbers and called frantically..please come as she is dying and wants someone to be near her...by the time someone reached, that lady went through severe pain and suffering..all the while looking at the messengers of death who would have silently descended and waited next to her, to take her soul away, to tear the life out of her body ..She must have pleaded to them to wait for few more minutes as she wants to see her mother one last time, feel her hand on her head and hug her for one last time...it must have been painful.. she died with no one around her.. life and death are two truths which all of us must respect and accept..May God rest her soul in peace!