SunStar + April 20, 2021 DEATH in my immediate family would come, I was certain, but I had always emotionally shelved the scenario as being, wishfully, yet many years into the future. And then my Dad succumbed to cancer, so belatedly diagnosed, and two years later, my younger brother, who had always looked up to me as ever-present and supportive “kuya,” also died all too suddenly- he left for work early Monday morning and by 5 p.m. the same day, he was lifeless. Though their deaths were deeply painful, I survived them without the rural sobs of grief- there was more of acceptance and, above all if not because of it, faith that they crossed the veil under the mantle of Divine Mercy.