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The funny thing about death is that sometimes it's expected, and sometimes it comes as a surprise. An elderly person could be in hospice for months, allowing their family to say goodbye and prepare themselves for life without them. Otherwise, a phonecall can surprise you, leaving you devastated. In either case, it's traumatic for everyone. Whenever I visited the morgue to work on an autopsy, I briefly wondered how the families felt. Did they know what happened? Did they want to know? What was the last thing they said to them? How are they handling life without this person? Then I would wonder about the person on the table in front of me. What was their last thought? What were their last words? What were their hopes and dreams, and what were they like? However, these curiosities were fleeting because I had a job to do.

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As far as endings go, we all have to go through them in order to start something new. I have always been told that when one door closes, another door opens, and friends come and go like water. Some of my first endings were in high school, I am no longer friends with some of the people I was friends with then, and I am in a different place than I was then. The door of high school closed with a quiet thump and the door of college opened with a great woosh of things to come. I started my undergrad with a long distance relationship. That lasted almost five years before that door slammed shut in my face with a bang, and now I'm peeking through the door of dating as an adult. I have finished my last fall semester, and I am watching the door of my undergrad slowly closing, and listening to either the door of grad school or being a real adult begin to unlock. It's likely the door of undergrad, but what if it's the door of being an adult? I'm not sure I'm ready for it. Is anyone though? I wasn't ready for the door of my last relationship to close the way it did, and I don't think I'm ready to open the door of dating as an adult yet, but I don't think anyone is. Endings are tough for everyone, so I try not to complain too much. So, here is to endings, hopefully my next adventures are as exciting as the ones during my undergrad.