Requiem

Reflections on recent death and continuing devastation.

Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine; et lux perpetua luceat eis.

On 19th September, my partner Alan suddenly died.

I have no words for what happened that day. I could tell you how he died, but that is merely describing. The medically-minded and morbidly inclined might like to know he died of a pulmonary embolism caused by deep vein thrombosis. But that’s w…