Breakfast with Daniel

Daniel recounts his father’s rapid decline: flu around Friday, collapse Sunday, hospitalisation he thinks on the 14th, then death. He repeatedly questions whether earlier treatment could have changed the outcome, hoping certainty would quiet his counterfactual thoughts. He rejects spiritual consolation, calls his father simply dead, and describes life as meaningless amid divorce and channel decline.

Bereavement intensifies guilt, while divorce and channel decline reinforce a broad collapse of meaning.