GRIEF TRAIN: My father’s death taught me about love and letting go

My father passed away just before noon on October 30, 2017. He'd been diagnosed with cancer 18 months earlier.

I drove to the hospital that morning, surrounded by Halloween decorations on neighbours' lawns. I remember wishing that people would take them down out of respect for my Dad. It seemed wrong to celebrate death when he was so close to passing. Little did I know, he'd be gone within an hour.