Armeena Khan Instagram – Dad wanted to buried in his fav city – Lahore. He passed away with a lot of his family around him (a comforting thought), I watched him breathe his last from my phone. It destroyed me as it gave that much more meaning to the loss of life that I’d been witnessing ON my phone since the start of October. Dad had been fighting cancer so bravely but he lost the battle sadly. He was planning on going to pakistan because he so badly wanted to be with his extended family. He did go in the end but in a casket 💔 last Friday we brought him all the way from Canada where he was being treated for Cancer, Ah yes, the dreaded big “C”, ripping families apart since forever. Did you know 1 in 3 people will be affected by Cancer? Oh yes, so if you’re a family of 6, 2 people or more will get it and those are the odds sadly. On a different note, my dad used to say that the farming communities had it right, live simple and off the land = live longer because he believed we were living shorter lives due to all these chemicals being passed off as food. It got me thinking, all this toxicity around us (the big city smog, the food, water, chemicals) everything is poisoning our bodies and wreaking havoc on our collective mental health . Someone wise said to me once, growing old is going to be privilege in the future and I am seeing it for the first time, as more and more people drop from different diseases, famine, poverty, war and injustice. I pray I get lots of grey hair before I kick the bucket. Sorry my mind is all over the place and I am not sure if I’m making much sense, forgive me. Anyway, may our loved ones live long. May my father’s departed soul be elevated to the highest of heavens. I will miss you daddy, you brave, kind soul. 🤲🏽 Also, vive la Palestina. ❤️❤️🕊️