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Eighty-year-old woman sits in a lawn chair as she waters the lawn.

Elderly man sitting in front of sign that reads, ''Sex' counselor 80-yr's-exp. available after 5 pm.'

An 86-year-old rural woman poses proudly outside her century old home with one of the three kittens she lives with. Road expansion is threatening her home of 60 years.

Young toddler crawls towards his grandfather's casket.

After the funeral director left, I looked at the empty bed and for the first time it hit me, the ordeal was finished. I felt no overwhelming sense of relief that Gramp was gone, instead, a tinge of emptiness, a feeling that we would miss the…

Checking to see if Gramp is still breathing.

Taking Gramp's pulse.

Mark checked for a heartbeat and then for a pulse. There were none. 'Gramp's dead,' said Mark, 'I think I should close his eyes.'

Gramp finally lapsed into a very deep sleep. He didn't move for nine or ten hours. Then Mark and I witnessed Gramp's last movement as he suddenly became very animated and emitted a low moan.

What Gramp did want was somebody to be with him all the time, Hillary, Gramp's four-year-old great-granddaughter, wanted to take her turn as well.