Mars Endeavour

by Peter Cawdron

Sounds crazy, but dying is an act, a torturous process undergone by the living. Death is a state—never to wake again. There’s a permanence to death that defies my notion of life.

“Life is a constant struggle against death. With each heartbeat, each breath, we push back the inevitable by one more fleeting moment... To be alive is to know you will die...