EPILOGUE

" Ashes, dust to dust," the minister intoned as he said the prayer. Raphael stared at his wife's coffin and silently begged the minister to hurry up and get it over with.

A few hours later…

Megan stood at the new gravestone bearing her mother's name. She placed a boquet of red roses on the tombstone.

" Dad is still angry at you for not taking the pills but I'm not anymore. I see your reason for not living. Who would want to live through the pain and suffering?" she paused," Good bye Mom…" tears ran down her cheeks as she fled from the cemetary.