Gordon Baer's Description of Exhibit     No one expects death to come to them on little cat feet. The end of life is feared, revered, slow, painful, abrupt, merciful, horrific - and something we all must face.     I became part of my 95-year-old aunt's dying process by photographically documenting the unnecessarily painful end of her life in a nursing home.     In only two bed-ridden months, Beck, a vibrant woman who could laugh about her little memory lapses, changed into a living corpse trapped in a physical hell.     My photographs graphically document my aunt and the issues involved in her loving care and gross neglect. They also demonstrate the need for education people in the medical, psychology, gerontology, insurance and funeral industries, and ill nursing home (administration and staff), organ transplant, grief counseling and hospice communities.     The photographs also show the trauma overworked caregivers experience in a conglomerate set of systems that are simply not working for America today.     The body of this work consists of 600+ color and monochrome images and transcribed interviews with my mother (Beck's Sister), her niece Carol, and myself. The is in addition, a stream of consciousness text of my thoughts and an audio tape overview of various persons and situations involved. Respectfully submitted, Gordon Baer