imagine how it all could be among us if we began to understand all the talk about dying and the news about dying and the visits to the hospital and the deathbed and the grave side and the memorial service, and all the sorrows and grief of life, as our initiation into personhood. We could change it from trauma and loss and therapy and depression into tempering and emotional intelligence and spiritual maturity and wisdom. We could make our way of dying into our way of person making. Every death that precedes our own could be our school, our initiation hut, every dying person and every witness
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