My mother-in-law died of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig's disease). When she passed, my wife, her sister and her husband, and my mother-in-law's ex-

My mother-in-law died of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig's disease). When she passed, my wife, her sister and her husband, and my mother-in-law's ex-husband were with her. I was stroking her hair because I wanted the last thing she felt to be a human touch. At one moment, she said quite clearly, "I'm ready to get on the train". Not a second or two later, we heard the train whistle (Palo Alto) as it passed the stop near her home. And then she stopped breathing. Coincidence, of course, but nonetheless lovely.