Expiration date

She had to disconnect. It was what he wanted. He gave her the choice, he made her his executor--which she found out only after he'd stopped breathing on his own.

"But I'm no one to this guy," she protested on the phone with the doctor.

"In fact, you are," he said.

That was like him. He had a provocative sense of humor.

She drove alone into Wisconsin as the doctor coldly described his weakly state.

He was living with a heart outside his body. A series of arrhythmias began his death the day before she arrived and bid them do it. He left the planet Saturday night.

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