Passages
My late friend John Denver once wrote a lyric in a song that said: “Why is it thus we are here and so soon we are gone.” I think he was writing about his Father’s passing. I attended a wake a couple of days ago for a young woman in her mid-forties. So young compared to my age and so young in a society that says the young live and the old pass. Death and dying is not a common conversation topic in our society.…