By — Jack Ohman, The Sacramento Bee Jack Ohman, The Sacramento Bee Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/dads-death-nothing-like-imagined Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter My dad’s death was nothing like I imagined Health Sep 16, 2015 1:35 PM EDT Editor’s note: This is the fifth and final installment of cartoonist Jack Ohman’s series “The Care Package,” for PBS NewsHour. For years, Ohman imagined the moments leading up to his father’s death a thousand times, but when he died, the tedium, alarm and pain were nothing like Ohman had envisioned. The final three weeks revealed how broken and tired his father’s body was. Surgeons removed part of his father’s colon, and then his kidneys stopped working. Doctors sat down Ohman for an end-of-life discussion. “This goes on thousands of times a day in the United States, and you never think you’re going to be involved in something like that,” he said. Reporting by Laura Santhanam By — Jack Ohman, The Sacramento Bee Jack Ohman, The Sacramento Bee Jack Ohman joined The Sacramento Bee in 2013. He previously worked at the Oregonian, the Detroit Free Press and the Columbus Dispatch. His work is syndicated to more than 200 newspapers by Tribune Media Services. Jack has won the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, the Scripps Foundation Award and the national SPJ Award, and he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2012 and the Herblock Prize in 2013. Contact Jack at johman@sacbee.com. Twitter: @JACKOHMAN. @jackohman
Editor’s note: This is the fifth and final installment of cartoonist Jack Ohman’s series “The Care Package,” for PBS NewsHour. For years, Ohman imagined the moments leading up to his father’s death a thousand times, but when he died, the tedium, alarm and pain were nothing like Ohman had envisioned. The final three weeks revealed how broken and tired his father’s body was. Surgeons removed part of his father’s colon, and then his kidneys stopped working. Doctors sat down Ohman for an end-of-life discussion. “This goes on thousands of times a day in the United States, and you never think you’re going to be involved in something like that,” he said. Reporting by Laura Santhanam