I’m 70 and I think about death everyday. I think it's a great gift that God gives some of us -- to grow old in a way that our deaths are unavoidably present. That's a gift: that you get to live into your dying. That is part of what we would like to have possible for everyone. In America death has unfortunately become associated with: you're dead when your doctor can no longer do anything for you. I want to think that our deaths can be claimed as part of a community of friends that are able to be present to us as we die. That means that you don’t have to do everything necessary to keep your body alive.You can read the entire interview here.
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HT: Missy Buchanan
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