I believe all that would have happened is you would have become further alienated from your family, the outcome would have otherwise been the same.

Perhaps. At least I could have had the opportunity to speak with those caring for him along with my family and present them the abundance evidence that ventilators are death sentences BEFORE he died - AND suggest the other remedies that are now finally being partially acknowledged. Then at the very least I could forever say "I told you so."

I don't mean to be insensitive, but it's not an accident they didn't call you.

Yes, and no.

Yes, before 2020 I was annoying them with dystopian shit that's since come true, though it's unlikely they'll acknowledge it. Last conversation I had with my dad over a year ago was him telling me the food crises won't ever happen.

No, my dad had health problems on New Years 2021 so he was in the hospital for a week. He came home and gave COVID to my mom. He went into one hospital again, and my mom had a stroke along with the COVID and went to another hospital. I don't know the exact timeline. When she got out she called me, 16 days after he died after being on the ventilator for 3 weeks.

So it wasn't entirely neglect, so much as an accident of circumstances. It seems strange that no one had phones in the hospitals.

It also seems strange that they were planning a funeral for my dad this summer. No one ever called. I finally got a new phone, called my mom. In the walk in the park it turned into an argument before and after she showed me the memorial bench they had installed months before that overlooked the peace fountain and the Detroit Renaissance Center - and that no one had bothered to tell me about until we were upon it.

Fuck shitty family. This is not new since COVID though. Some people luck out, others don't.