Death is a Part of Life

I’ve always thought this meant that in our lifetimes we will experience the death of others, and, ultimately, our own death. Both of these things are true; it is a linear understanding based on the beginning and ending of a single lifetime. In this view, death is the end of a timeline that was once characterized by life. At least this is how I’ve always understood it. 

Death became part of Rod’s life in the most literal way. But on the day he died, death became part of my life, too. ​

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