The Case of Aharon

Abstract

Aharon Golan, a forty-three-year-old man, kissed his wife good-bye one morning and went to work. He never came home. He never saw the get well card with the yellow flower that his twelve-year-old daughter made for him, nor the faces of the three younger children who would now grow up without a father. Nor would he see the tears of the young doctor who had to be pulled away from his body when she could not stop herself from trying in vain to prevent his inevitable death. Instead, his heart stopped, and he simply ceased to exist.