I originally guest-posted this post on C.K Volnek's The Mind's Eye blog on January 12th -great blog, check it out
We all see it. On the television, in video games, some of us
have he misfortune of witnessing it in real life. Some of us more than once.
I myself have been a witness to death’s clammy hand
escorting a loved one from this world. I have seen the aftermath of this
process and I have also seen a person pull from the grip of that hand and
return to the living. She was
certainly on her way down the path until us humans intervened and escorted her
back.
Death, I’m afraid, is all around us.
Daniel Defoe wrote,
"Things as certain as death and taxes, can be more firmly believed." in
his novel, The Political History of the Devil.
“After all, to the
well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.” JK Rowling
Death is a delightful hiding
place for weary men. ~Herodotus
The graveyards are full of
indispensable men. ~Charles de Gaull
End? No, the journey doesn't
end here. Death is just another path... One that we all must take. The grey
rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all turns to silver glass... And
then you see it.
What? Gandalf?... See what?
White shores... and beyond, a
far green country under a swift sunrise. ~The Return of the King
