Secular Jew that I am, I would have never dreamed that one of the most profoundly stirring spiritual messages I would ever encounter would be found in a Catholic crypt in Rome. But that was due to my own narrow-mindedness. Each of us, no matter our beliefs or lack thereof, is wrestling with the deep knowledge that whatever comes next, this, what we are experiencing at this moment, will end with total finality. Whether we find nothingness or somethingness, it will be new and different from existence as we know it. For even if you believe in, say, reincarnation, life at another time in another
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