Death is unnatural when it comes to the young, but with age it is normal and inevitable and, like everything else that has been inevitable in life, becomes easier to accept. Some people have certain religious beliefs which they find help them to meet death with greater equanimity. I happen to think that a belief in God is really all that is necessary for the acceptance of death, since you know that death, like life, is part of God’s pattern. Nature makes it easier if you are old, and if you have matured in a way to accept life and death as part of God’s pattern, as you accept the changing
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