“Death is a tragedy … but only for the living. We who have died go on to other things.”
– Charles de Lint, Into the Green
from missilhouette.wordpress.com
It’s never easy getting that awful news. The news that someone you knew for such a long time has met an untimely end.
It’s been a difficult couple of days, especially for my daughter. A friend whom she met in preschool passed away two days ago. She was just 28 years old and suffered a pulmonary embolism! What is the world coming to when someone so young, when the rest of their lives should be before them, tragically dies like this? Is there ever a ‘good’ time or a ‘right’ time. Young or old it strikes at the heart, but the younger they are it seems more ‘unfair’.
The most difficult part is that there is no rhyme or reason to death. We have no control over it. If we are fortunate we can hold it at bay for a time, but eventually it gathers us all to it’s unwelcome embrace. It is something we cannot bargain with, despite the many tales of bargaining with Death.
from movieindex.com
So we must all try to find some way of understanding and finding acceptance for a life cut short. It is not in the early days when you can say that they had led a wonderful life, did this or that, traveled here or there. In those early days, late at night, we are all left wondering at the reasons for why these things happen, and look at our own mortality in the face.
All one can really say is that they were wonderful and will be missed.
“We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.” ~David Sarnoff
Owls and Orchids 
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