Was Carla buried or cremated? Sorry wasn’t sure where to ask this. A seeker on Reddit was asking hoping to visit her grave. Thanks.
I would advise the seeker to inquire of contact@llresearch.org.
The answer may be more explicitly stated somewhere in Tilting at Windmills, but I believe Carla donated her body to science so, I’m not sure she has a grave in the traditional sense, but may have a gravestone placed somewhere.
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Ah that rings a bell, thanks Jade.
Eric and I walked around the yard looking at the flowers and the stone work as Carla and Helen talked some and Carla napped occasionally. Helen said at one point Carla roused into crystal clear consciousness and said, “This is real. I’m going to die, and I don’t know when.” Helen, who also suffers from cancer, told her that she was going to die soon too, and also didn’t know when.
Helen and Eric left after a visit of about two hours. I took a bath and then took my usual nap around 5:30. I slept for a little more than an hour and when I woke up and looked over at Carla I could see that her eyes were open. That was unusual, so I got up and went over to her to see if I could get anything for her. I asked her if she wanted some pain medication. I thought that she nodded yes, so I put two Dilaudid in her mouth and of-
fered her a glass of water to wash them down.
She gently pushed the water aside with her right hand. Again I offered her the water, and again she gently pushed it aside with her right hand. Then I turned away from her for a moment to replace the glass of water on her bedside table. When I turned toward her again she had a look of shock on her face. I asked her if this was her time. I asked her if she was going to leave me.
Then I took her in my arms and told her that it was okay. I told her that it was okay to leave. I told her that I loved her. She took three long, slow, deep breaths, and she was gone. It was 6:50 pm EDT.
. . .
I immediately called Fr. Michael from St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, and he came over and administered the Last Rites. After Fr. Michael left I re-moved the catheter and changed the dressing on Carla’s wound, washed her body, and put oil on it. I removed her jewelry and put a new outfit on her and her favorite socks. Then I called the University of Louisville Medical School to let them know that she had passed away and had do-nated her body to them for scientific research. Two people from the medical school came within 45 minutes to pick up her body, but we had to wait until the EMS came and certified that she was deceased, and then we had to wait for the coroner to come and issue the same declaration.
In all, the waiting time was about two hours, so I sat on the bed with Carla’s body, keeping my hand on her leg, and talked to the two medical school attendants about the books on our walls and the various topics in them, especially the paranormal section. After they left with Carla’s body I didn’t think that I would be able to sleep that night, but I did eventually go to sleep somewhere around 2 am.
Did you hold a funeral service for her?
She asked that we have the funeral service for her two to three weeks after her passing so friends and family from a distance would have a chance to attend. And she wanted it on a weekend in the evening so people wouldn’t have to miss work to attend. We had a beautiful High Mass at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church on April 17, a Friday evening at 7 pm. She picked out every part of the service as all choir members had been asked to do, and it was glorious.[2] It included the Magnificat which is Latin for “my soul”. When Mary visited her cousin Elizabeth, who was pregnant
with John the Baptist, Elizabeth praises Mary for her faith. Mary’s re-sponse is to sing these words which basically say, “My soul doeth magnify the Lord.” This was Carla’s feeling about her life, that it should magnify the Lord Jesus Christ, her personal savior. I gave her eulogy and felt a great honor to be able to let people know what an amazing person of faith and love Carla was.[3]
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Thanks friend
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