I’m meaning to blog 2 days ago after seeing a massive rainbow on the way home from work. But I didn’t. Because I was too busy trying to bake mooncakes for Mr. Monday.

Yesterday I saw a small rainbow as the radio was reporting about deterioration of the Queen’s health. Sadly, a great loss to the country, she rested in peace yesterday.

I don’t know what exactly to feel, but a part of my heart aches. She felt like such a familiar person that her absence will definitely be felt, eventhough I’m not a citizen of England. I can’t imagine how the British people must feel.

However a part of me sighed in relief. She was reported to passed peacefully. At least she was made comfortable by her doctors. As a doctor myself, I personally strongly support palliative care. We all die someday, but we’ll only die once. And palliative care is meant, to allow people have some form of an ‘honourable death’. To not have their body defiled when going through an inevitable death with unnecessary procedures.

Too many emphasise on birth and the beauty of it, but death unfortunately has been dragged in the mud. Death is also beautiful. Death is an end to our mortal suffering. Death, what’s after death of course is a mystery, but I’d like to think that only good things come after death.

Hence why I think the Queen will be happy to meet Prince Phillip again. Somewhere over the rainbow….

P/s/s: Except if you’re a psychopathic child murderer. Then please have a torturing after-death experience.

So to those who are reluctant to carry out ‘DO NOT RESUSCITATE’ discussion, please remember: everybody deserves an honourable death.