So the prognosis was right

We had tree "doctors" come to the house and do some cleanup a while ago. The backyard needed a lot of work but the front seemed okay.
That was, until the "doctor" looked at one of the elms and gave the grave diagnosis that it was on its way out. Eventually, he said, it would terminate itself. No joke, that's how he described it.

Well, folks, the day has come and sadly the prognosis was right. I drove up to the house from work tonight and saw this...
The tree has indeed "terminated itself." Bummer.