Mortality Stalks Me

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We always think we have more time. For most of our lives, we ignore our mortality. We make plans far into the future. That future is always in the distance. None of us believe that day will come for us. When confronted with a funeral of a loved one or friend we take only a brief and sideways glance at our own eventual death. We then quickly get back to our own “to-do” list and our daily routines, pushing death once again behind that curtain of…