Autumn Sunrise

Autumn Sunrise

Sunday 17 October 2010

When people go for ever...


My cousin has just died. He was only 45 years old!
He was a loving and caring person, he was looking after his elderly mother. He was living with his her, because she needs help in her daily routine.
Five months ago he was diagnosed with lung cancer, it soon was spreading all over his body. In the end there was no part of him free of cancer. And he never smoked in his live. 
He died yesterday at 04:00pm MET.
Even tough I didn't know him very well, he grew up in the former GDR, it still hit me hard for he was a part of my family, which seems to diminish by the minute as the members grow older and there is hardly any offspring. I fear that my family will be extinguished by the end of this century.
A sad thought, because we can trace our roots back to the year 1489 when my ancestor came from France to live in Germany and married a woman from Switzerland which also came to live in Germany. Now 500 years later, there is me, contemplating over past and future times and a dead cousin.
I feel sad that he had to go so early, may God take care of him