I Will Follow You Into the Dark

Sad new on the home front.  My beautiful pink beta, Sunset, passed last week.  First he started swimming slower and slower.  Then he was only able to swim with 1 fin.  It was really sad to watch.  Then he sank to the bottom of the bowl and wouldn't even swim up to the top to eat his red worm flakes.  I knew the end was near, and i said my good byes to him before I went to bed.  When i got up, he was gone.  He was stiff and still in the bottom of his murky little fish bowl.  I went to work, and when i got home, he was floating at the top of the fish bowl, tangled up in the pretty little plant we put in there for him.  He floated for 3 days on my kitchen table and I when it just got too sad, i put him out on the porch for Jon to throw out.  I wanted to have a nice little ceremony and throw his cold lifeless body into the ocean, but i didn't want to scare people at the beach, so we just put his bowl and him in a stop and shop baggie and put him in the trash can.  RIP, Sunset.  I will remember you as you were with you stiking pink and purple scales shimmering as you swam in clear plastic little bowl above all the shiny little brown rocks.  I know that's what you would want.  Be happy in the big fishbowl in the sky.