More Death in 2023?

 This is not what you want to see outside your window. 

In 2022, two people died in my apartment building. The first, a 60-year-old lady who lived upstairs, was sitting by her window when she fell forward onto the livingroom carpet where she died from a stroke. The second was a man who'd been on oxygen for years. He collapsed at the dining room table. His wife called 9-1-1 and they coached her so she could administer CPR. She tried. She even shouted, "Breathe! Breathe!" When the paramedics arrived, they tried for 20 minutes, but the man was gone. 

Our landlord died in 2022, also. But that was at the hospital two blocks away. 

When I pulled back the curtains yesterday and saw the ambulance parked outside, I said to myself, 'Not again!'

Then, I remembered when the mortician came to take the man's body away. The mortician used a blue body bag and pushed the stretcher into the hearse before slowly driving down the alley. It was a sombre moment, but one I watched with morbid curiousity. After all, how often do you see a body bag?

I began to wonder if I'd see a body; perhaps without the body bag. It seems coarse to look back at it now, but I wanted a picture. I prepared my camera. Next, I listened carefully...and eventually I heard the stretcher being pushed down the hallway and out the main door. The paramedics began to load a man I didn't recognize into the ambulance. 

Fortunately, the patient was cracking jokes with the ambulance driver so whatever the incident was about it mustn't have been too serious.