The Doctor and His Dog

[Tell of what they’d wish for us to do, how we can carry on from where their life had ended.]

In one of his books, John Braille tells of an old country Doctor who made his rounds in a horse-drawn carriage. The Doctor’s dog would go along for the ride. One day, the Doctor went to visit a man who was critically ill. “How am I, Doctor?” the man asked. The Doctor replied: “It doesn’t look good!” Both men were quiet for a while. The man then said: “What’s it like to die, Doctor?” As the old Doctor sat there trying to think of some words of comfort, he heard his dog coming up the stairs. And then, because the door was shut, the dog began to whimper and scratch at the door. The Doctor said to the man: “You hear that? That’s my dog! He’s never been in this house before, he doe…