Ms. Rothenburgh died on Sept. 27, with her brother and sister and mother at her bedside. Some people, Ms. Lewis said, felt her daughter should have been in a medical facility, but she disagrees.

“If she was in a hospital, you don’t have that time,” she said. “She wouldn’t have been able to sit on the porch, to camp out, to listen to the crickets. She got to do what she wanted to do, and I’m happy about that.”

It’s death on your own terms, and with dignity, and surrounded by what you know. And even though years have passed, I still seethe when I think of how my father was deprived of this by his ‘wife.’

I trust in karma, however. And I know it’s going to be a bitch when it hits.

OK.  Negative energy out of system.