Goodbye Daniel

Camille returns full of the Latin culture, a family who welcomed them with open arms and gratitude, and a beautiful sending of Daniel's ashes, his mortal remains, to the wind. These photos are taken where they stayed, on the family beach compound where Daniel grew up in Araya.

Here is the altar where a Catholic mass was said when they gathered. Daniel's father is a very devout catholic; his faith carrying him through his sadness. He told the girls that when he first heard that Daniel was so sick in the hospital he prayed for two things: mercy and more time. And that both prayers were answered...he got to see him one more time while he was still conscious...and there was mercy within the speed of Daniel's death, saving him from lingering pain.

Giving his ashes to the wind.

At the end of the memorial service, Camille tells me of these clouds in the sky shaped like a hand. They all felt it was Daniel waving goodbye.

Here the friends make a loving heart with their hands back to Daniel.