Long time friend of the family, Vern (from the accounts I heard from Ken-boy) has resigned himself to a fairly planned demise. It seems a few weeks back he had a capillary or some blood flowing vessel burst in his sinus... it drained him of, and this is rumored, nearly five pints of blood... there was some activity to fuse shut the bleeding but any more would leave him blind in that eye. Vern - never one to take this lying down - said something to the kin of "funk that I've done and seen all that I care to" and now is making preparations to have Ken-boy the executor of his estate, ensure he is not interned next to his brother, and that Pops and I are pall bearers.

Wonderful.

Though I am unsure if I have ever imagined Vern moving on that didn't result from him refusing medical treatment.