In her assisted living home in Buenos Aires 40 seniors tested CVID-19 positive. She also tested CVID-19 positive, but asymptomatic, and was immediately moved to a hospital in Buenos Aires for observation. Technically, the cause of death was probably cardiac failure. She was 95, pretty much bedridden by old-age, but clear-headed to the end, and the morning before her death she was expecting a group phone call with two of her sons and her daughter. There was some technical snafu, and it did not happen.
So it was kind of death that was sudden and perhaps welcome, after a long and eventful life. Her children are at peace with it, but, as we all know, that kind of loss takes years to work through. If ever.
Berta that American friends remember from many years ago, when she was still coming on her annual visits was a friskier, chain-smoking and excitable Berta.
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