Death sums up the fundamental choices we have made about ourselves and about God. We die well when we surrender ourselves fully and unconditionally to God. We die badly when we close in upon ourselves and shut our God. Neil Cahill died well. He died very well, praying the Rosary with three friends in the early hours of a new day.
Death usually seals personal choices made long before the hour of death.
Neil Cahill's personal choices shaped his life as they did his death. A faithful friend is beyond price, no sum can balance his worth. Like all of us he was human. His priesthood was God's doing, not his - for our sake and for his. Moreover, everyone who has given up home, brothers or sisters, father or mother, wife or children, or property for my sake will receive many times as much and inherit everlasting life.