The End (And Beginning) of My Gay Marriage

Eric Beach
10 min readSep 11, 2020
Photo by Tom Pumford on Unsplash

Content warning: medical trauma, cardiac arrest, CPR, spousal death

“Babe….Something’s wrong…I think you need to take me to the hospital.”

Ray said this from the bathroom while I was still in bed. He was getting cleaned up to go to church and lead the liturgy like any other Sunday. He and just one or two other people would be in the sanctuary to film the service…

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Eric Beach

Kierkegaard- and Merton-loving craft beer enthusiast, gay widower, film devourer, and Dudeist priest.