Chapter 36 Death & Well-kept Secrets

• ◇ Mount Carmel Hillside Cemetery, New York ◇
• Multiple organ failure. Five and a half years of hospitalizations, regular trips to the doctors, and dozens and dozens of medications.
• It was tragic, of course, but essentially easy to comprehend. Jim Nielsen, 64, had passed away in peace. After three nights in the hospital ICU again, Dr. Chase delivered the sad news before she could make it to her father's deathbed.