“In journalism, when we want to get a story over the jumps, we refer to it as a universal experience, but it almost never is,” Simon said later. “There is one universal experience, that’s death. That is something we are all going to experience at some distance in the lives of loved ones, strangers and friends, people around us and certainly our own. I think it should be something we are comfortable talking about. Insofar as we can talk about it comfortably, we can reset the clocks in our own lives.”
