RIP Barbara Bush

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So, sad, but it sounds like it was expected.

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product. Eleanor Roosevelt


Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/18/2018 01:35AM by KathyG.
She knew and she was ready. She chose to go peacefully, done with the fight.

I heard it reported that in these last days she had family and friends reading to her at her bedside, including Susan Baker, Jim Baker's wife. Read from her memoir. That is kind of a lovely thing, comforted by your own memories and thoughts, drifting between states of variable consciousness.

I think just not to be alone is comforting. Some people so fear illness and hospitals and death, it is such a lonely and sterile experience for too many.

Difficult as it may be for some, I think one of the greatest acts of compassion is to comfort people in their last days and hours by just being there with them. Offer them a last touch, kind thoughts, gratitude.
She & her husband married in January of 1945....that's 73 years!!! What a testimony!
I liked her too. When I read earlier this week that she was doing "comfort care," I thought it was her next cause.

"I told myself to quit you; but I don't listen to drunks." -Chris Stapleton
I heard on the news that every night for the 73 years they've been married, George HW Bush would say to Barbara, "Good night, Barb, I love you." Every single night for 73 years! That sort of touched my heart!! Kind of sad that after all these years, he won't have anyone to say it to, at least in person. He'll have to tell her in his heart.
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