User blog comment:Gideoncrawle/My MIL passed away/@comment-1874924-20100608042620

It wasn't as bad as it could have been. Because of the way my MIL rallied at the hospice, my wife had a fair amount of time to come to terms with the situation. Since my DW doesn't work regularly outside the home, and the hospice is only about a mile from our home, she got to spend a great deal of time with her mother these last 7 weeks.