[ WP ] After a long life , an elderly patient is lying on their deathbed , when their father walks in , looking as young as the last time they saw him as a child .

There he was leaning against the doorframe, with a smile that could n't conceal the sadness behind it. It's been seventy years and he has not changed one bit. It's painful seeing him for the last time as a living person. 
 
 `` Father?'' I painfully muttered. With an age like mine, every task felt like a slow physical torture. 
 
 `` Yes, James. I'm sorry you have to see me like this. I bet with the long life you have lived, seeing me arrive would probably be the worst moment of your life... ever.'', my father replied. There was not a single wrinkle in his forehead nor a bald patch on his sleek gelled-up hair. It can not be helped anyway, he had to look exactly like the way he was seventy years ago. 
 
 `` It's alright, there's no need for apologies. I understand. It can not be helped that you had to be away since 1976. If you popped up then would n't it be creepy? Ha ha ha *cough* *cough* `` 
 
 `` James, you got ta take it easy. Your lungs are not what they used to be'' 
 
 `` They do n't matter now anyway. I guess I have a minute before you leave?'' 
 
 `` Yes son, but I'll see you soon.'', and with that final statement, a nurse in white escorted him out of the room. 
 
 I gave in to the weight of my eyelids. Everything was dark and silent except for the heart monitor giving out a loud constant beep. I breathed my last as I clasped my father's funeral photo. He may have been gone for seventy years but we'll be reunited forever at last.
