SHADOWBOX FOR LIFE is set against the backdrop of the final days of a retired explorer-minded father and an adventurous life well-lived, this ninth story in the Mention of God series journeys, as a wayfarer through remembrance, affection, hospice care, and the metaphoric stages of the eternal progress of the soul. As genre of literature, it can be described as extended reality, in which elements of real-life is carried forward beyond the present into an unlikely yet possible future; it is autobiographical with an alternative ending. Shadowbox For Life is about how a dying father chooses to spend his last hours before he falls comatose and departs this physical reality.