Death is nothing at all. I have only slipped away into the next room. . . . Whatever we were to each other, that we are still. Call me by my old familiar name, speak to me in the same easy way you always used. . . . Laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes we enjoyed together. Play, smile, think of me, pray
for me. . . . Life means all that it ever meant. It is the same as it ever was. There is absolute and unbroken continuity. . . .Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight? I am waiting for you,
for an interval, somewhere very near, just around the corner. All is well. Nothing is hurt; nothing is lost.
One brief moment and all will be as it was before.
Alberto Gonzalez, age 75, of Burbank, California passed away on Thursday, June 13, 2024.
