"Laid down and never woke up." Yikes, good grief. Two weeks? hoooeey, cancer is so brutal. Sorry about your dad.
Thanks. Hard to speak for someone else, but in his case, maybe not too bad. His mother (my grandmother) spent 3 years in an old person's home and was unable to recall her own children's names. So it was not perhaps a bad passing. What does the psalmist say? (Anglican Book of Common Prayer translation)
"Certify the days that remain unto me
that I may present thee with a heart of wisdom."
He knew what was coming, and he died with his mind and body pretty much intact. We won't remember seeing him for the last time while he was wasting away or invalid in a hospital bed. He was walking and smiling the last time I saw him.