The death of someone we know always reminds us that we’re still alive...but to what purpose...

People are awful funny when it comes to death ‘n dying...we all know we’re gonna die but we can’t ever know it after it happens...still, if you spend all your time worrying about dying, living ain’t gonna be near as much fun...I think Ashley Montagu had it right when he said, “The idea is to die young as late in life as possible.”

If all this talk about death ‘n dying seems a little morbid, I’m sorry...it never wuz my intention...it’s just that death is such a fact of life that most of the time people are 'way too busy to think about it ‘n then someone we know just goes ahead ‘n dies without consulting anybody about it...kind’a leaves ever’one feeling a little left out of the loop, y’know...like maybe they somehow went off to a party that you didn’t get an invite for...not that you actually wanted to go, of course...I mean, I ain’t quite ready to explore the unknown that waits for all of us....not yet anyhow.....down the road sometime but not yet...I’ve been to the top of the Empire State building ‘n I’ve seen the Grand Canyon...Heck! I even drove across Texas a couple times...(I know, once should have been enuff but I guess I’m a slow learner)...anyway, it ain’t given to any of us to know the exact moment that we’re gonna ‘shuffle off this mortal coil’ and make that quantum leap into the unknown ‘n I expect that’s a good thing....