Death is God’s Greatest Betrayal
Beth and I had to grudgingly face the fact that it was time to give Jessie a proper funeral. With most of the island’s local population of professionals returning, we located the mortician and had Jessie cremated. We kept Jessie’s remains in the refrigerated morgue, which had an incredibly determined and strong electrical generator. She was finally cremated. We shipped part of her ashes to her parents and saved the rest for a time when little Jessie could participate.
After we had settled back into our little castle on the leeward side of the island, life slowly returned to something resembling normalcy. We all had shared the same bed until such time that I could build another. While lying in the family bed one night, I turned my head toward Beth’s free b
