For most people, death is not an easy subject. It is uncomfortable thinking about no longer being alive, not seeing one's children grow up, leaving one's family -- perhaps a husband or wife, children, brothers and sisters, parents, and friends. Yet death is one common factor that binds the entire human family. We may not all be rich and famous, and in fact may be important only to our family and close friends; yet what happens to the rich and famous happens to the not-so-rich and obscure: eventually we will all die. It is easy for most people to put aside thoughts of dying as something that happens to other people; or if they think of it happening to them, only think of it as happening some time in the distant future. Maybe that will be your future, but maybe not. In the blink of an eye, you may go from apparently having years of life ahead to being killed in a car accident.
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