Bereavement

She was in a coma (cancer) at age 80.
About 20 minutes before she died she opened her eyes straight ahead- not at me - and smiled so big I'm like what does she see as she had been so miserable for days- this was a complete reversal.
She was so delighted with whatever she saw I ran downstairs to tell my SIL (mom was in home hospice) and we both ran back up stairs and she was already gone.

It was a sunny Sunday at 3:30 PM and my brothers were at the funeral directors selecting her coffin. We called them there and they raced back home. Then we called the funeral director and they came and got her and we watched them carry her down the stairs and into their very discreet station wagon.

Never forgot that moment but the only good things about it were she wasn't suffering anymore and she died at home and not in a hospital which is what she wanted.

Sorry for your sad loss!