This Year I’m Preparing for the End of My Life

Memory-muddled moms are showing the way

Mary DeVries
Crow’s Feet
Published in
7 min readJan 31, 2024

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Photo by RDNE Stock project: https://www.pexels.com/photo/portrait-of-a-romantic-elderly-couple-5637541/

My grandfather-in-law had a perfect death. We should all be so lucky.

The year before he died, we celebrated his 90th birthday. A few months before, he attended his granddaughter’s wedding with all his living children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren.

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Mary DeVries
Crow’s Feet

The older I get, the less I know. That won’t stop me from writing about everything and anything under the sun. Join me in delighting and despairing about life.