A Homage To My Uncle The last standing uncle on my father's side died very recently, which puts my siblings and I at the top of the tree. He was a man I loved very much and what follows is a tribute to him. R.I.P Uncle. I stood there watching my Uncle die. Life, fighting for its life. The morphine would try to fool his life into thinking that all was well, but you could see that life knew that its strength was ebbing away and death was getting stronger by the minute. Soon,