For that to happen we have to begin understanding our dying as an obligation we have to the people around us. If that happens we will change what dying means and what dying does to us. When that happens, dying isn’t an intrusion into the natural order of true things. It is the natural order of things. It is life’s way of gathering you to itself, making sure you aren’t left on your own. Dying isn’t the end of true things—which is what most people mean when they grudgingly admit that dying is part of life—or the euchre of true things. It is one of the true things, that is all. One of the eternal
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