The hardest decision of all

15 January, in the year of our Lord 2023

Lord’s Day. Up, and all ablutions done, and breakfasted, Mr. Jones and I to visit my father. The report thus: that he hath by today had two Remedys which are specifique to the Covey plague itselfe, and all the other treatments that he hath had, yet all his scores pertayning to Vitality are stubborn, and refuse to increase, and still he fights for breath. So we sat, quietly in a little anteroom, and come to agree, in the discussion of every thing, how little the likelyhood that any future Intervencion might be to the betterment of it all, and concluded it best to attempt no more. The resolution thus made, we sat again for little while, and contemplated not merely the sadness but also the comfort that comes with the decision, for all of us that be concerned, not the least of them, I pray to God, being my poor father who lay asleep before us.