editing this book, I put this chapter to the test. We received a call that my wife’s father wasn’t doing well. He had been sick for several months. He suffers from congestive heart failure and increasing dementia. He is eighty-three years old. His wife had passed into heaven a few months earlier, and he has been on a steady decline ever since. His cardiologist told us that his heart might last only a few more weeks. He was in an assisted-living facility about five hours from our home, and Denalyn felt