Several years ago, a childless, elderly aunt of my husband's who was under our care during a simple hospital procedure died suddenly and unexpectedly while in the hospital. It was such a simple procedure that her only sister--my mother-in-law--and my father-in-law had not even accompanied her here to the hospital. Being childless, the aunt had no one to look after her affairs here except us, and we had a child to look after too. We DID NOT want my in-laws to get the news over the phone from us, alone in their home more than 50 miles away, so we enlisted the help of their pastor, who went over and broke the news to them in person. How do people with no faith or religion deal with things like that?
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Gorby to attend funeral.