There is an old Swedish saying that says that we all have to walk that road.
Although we know this, death is also that inevitable event that always seems furthest from our minds as we go about the business of living.
Youth, as you know, is immortal, always has been and always will be, and most of us walking this earth on some level know that we’ll never die (which, of course, is also true).
But we do, each and everyone of us, sooner or later—many wish later—leave this too solid flesh, and many an aged warrior even wish that it would melt now, thaw and resolve itself into dew.
Death is worth thinking about, learning about, writing about. It is the one big question at the end of the road that has no business remaining unseen, uninspected, unconsidered, or unreflected upon. It is the one thing we really should know more about.
It is the one thing we should learn to face and undergo with grace.
These, then, are my thoughts on death.
Ulf Wolf