My brother was pronounced at 12:01 on Friday, August 13, 1982. He was murdered August 12, 1982. The pronouncement was a technicality in the ER as it was the time the ER physician came in to his room.
My brother's tombstone says August 12, 1982 as that was the date he was taken from us so violently. The death certificate reads the 13th. It didn'tmatter. We also had a closed casket for my brother as we preferred to remember him full of life. In my mind's eye however, I still see him on the stretcher in the ER. It has never left me in 32 years....