At the Hospital, a Nurse Told Me My Husband’s Wife and Son Were Already With Him—Then I Heard the Recording From His Crash
Plea.
Prison.
Restitution.
I sometimes imagined those alternate endings.
They never helped.
Death is not a verdict.
His brain hemorrhage did not prove the universe had punished him.
It proved he had suffered a serious traumatic injury and later developed a fatal complication.