and be my home

[tectak]

I think you have misread some of the first part, or I have written poorly. He is giving the reasons why he is making this somewhat strange request, and that is none of the usual suspects to fill the role are alive. So he is offering a bargain to this person, that if they will allow him to die in his "house" and be there with him as it happens, he will leave everything he has to them. Without someone to do this for him, the powers that be will come and take him to the hospital. He does not want that, he wants to die where he feels comfortable, where he is around familiar things. so, in the metaphorical sense, the person, is fulling the part of being his home. I have seen a number of older people protest to being removed from their homes when they are dying. They know they are dying, and they accept that, and even welcome it, what they do not want is to be removed from what is familiar.

Dale

PSST "My "New Age" is so good that no one can find anything to crit it on." I'll give it a look see, I missed it somehow.

No...I got the sentiment and the point....I was just a little twisted in my logic when I wrote that it would be better to suggest "at" home. It really is a very nice piece but as you gently indicated I did not lock on to the full implication of "my". Stupid.
I have an ancient mother, 97 now, and unaware. My worst fears were convincing her that the time had come to go into what is in fact an excellent home. Getting back to your piece, it was not in any way a comfort to her whether she went into said home, lived with us, lived with my sister or lived with a friend......she wanted to stay at HER home. ......so with that specific circumstance in mind I would perhaps suggest a couple more lines early on, to ease the reader into better understanding. I say again, it is a very poignant piece, the moreso when understood.
Best,
Tectak