[Dialogue] ON DEATH

[David & Lin]

My thanks to those of you who have responded to my recent posting. My 
apologies for answering a general response to the Listserve.

I know people I regard to be genuine colleagues who have signed off 
from the List because it is too often used as a personal 
communication system--i.e. two people using the List to send chit 
chat back and forth without respect for the whole List.

My reflections on death were prompted when I was met with a flurry of 
"I'm so sorry....etc."

It occurred to me that one of the major probable causes of the sorrow 
is finding in the event a mirror--that is, that's precisely what all 
of us can count on! And it would serve each of us well to look beyond 
the experienced sorrow and find the message the sorrow is bearing as 
it confronts us. Probably the hardest message is the death brings an 
end to the life I have known. And at the same time it is the promise 
of something new. It is a call to Courage--to grasp the new and begin 
inventing another life. I'm thinking this is equivalent to a 
resurrection. One that happens Now!

David

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