[ WP ] The single saddest moment your life will ever have was the single happiest moment of someone else 's .

The man cried, sobs wracking his huge frame, the contradiction of his masculinity and his emotion too much for the nurses, who pretended not to notice. 
 
 He held his daughter to his chest and rocked back and forth. 
 
 `` Daddy loves you, Sweet Pea. Daddy loves you. Forever and always.'' He repeated over and over, the words almost indistinguishable, masked by his tears and gasps for breath. 
 
 He saw the group in the hallway turn towards the door, and he knew his time was over. 
 
 They came in, and the doctor pressed a few buttons on the machine beside the bed. 
 
 There were a few seconds where the only sound was the ticking of the man's watch, and then the doctor turned around. 
 
 `` She's gone.'' He said simply. 
 
 The man let out an inhuman wail, his chest consumed with the greatest grief he had ever felt. 
 
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 She had been in pain for so long that she could scarcely remember a time without pain. The last few days, the pain had been so great that she had n't been able to comprehend what was going on around her, what was being said, though she knew she did n't have much time left. She had been fighting for so long. 
 
 She heard words and noises as though from the other side of a thick wall- dull thuds and low murmurs that made no sense to her. She'd stopped trying to decipher them, as it was too much effort, and put all her effort into willing away the pain. But it was n't enough. 
 
 She was faintly aware of a group of people coming into her room, though it felt more like she was remembering a dream while shrouded in a thick fog. 
 
 After a moment of this, she realized that she felt no pain. She had a moment of complete lucidity, which spread from head to toe in a spasm of ecstasy that she had never experienced. There was light, and music, and a body that was n't mutinous, and she saw her father's face in a moment of flooding joy. 
 
 She smiled as she slipped off, right before an inhuman wail pierced the air.
