Rainn Wilson
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And we're like, oh.
And then we had to wait another six hours before we kind of found out
the situation and um but he was still barely alive but losing his blood pressure and he had some kind of blood sepsis and and it was a kind of thing of like deciding to oh man unplug him but the doctor was like listen he's gonna be dead within the hour and it was like one of those hospital shows where it's like
squeaky doctor's shoes on the linoleum floor.
White coats and gloves and math.
Beeping machines and beep, beep.
And that ventilator is going, no way.
And it was incredibly sad.
It was weeping and...
But what is the, what is the kind of bounty that comes out of it?
What's the takeaway?
Um, his body is lying there on the table and I see little things about him, the way his hair sticks up here and there and the way his ears are and his kind of ruddy cheeks and his kind of old man hands.
And, and, and I, and it hit me like, oh, that's not my father.
That's not my father.
That is the vessel that carried my father for 79 years.
I'm looking at this vessel once the heart had stopped.
But that's not the reality of who he is.
And that goes hand in hand with that lesson.
So that's what he's kind of taught me upon his passing.
Again, just really solidify that lesson.