Death near the holidays
The online news featured deaths this morning. Two police officers shot and killed by another officer. Elrod Hendricks, long-time Orioles bullpen coach, dead the day before his 65th birthday. Tony Dungy loses his son. The young Dungy was eighteen. All of life before him, all of it gone.
Death is brutal on the survivors, especially the unexpected deaths. To know (or have a strong inkling) that someone near is soon to die gives you a chance to prepare.
When that someone is gone in a flash, the shock of it deprives you of a chance to mourn.
And so, three days before Christmas, we shake our heads and wonder about the seeming randomness of it all. And we know that our turn will come in that same way. Here, then gone.
goodenuff
Death is brutal on the survivors, especially the unexpected deaths. To know (or have a strong inkling) that someone near is soon to die gives you a chance to prepare.
When that someone is gone in a flash, the shock of it deprives you of a chance to mourn.
And so, three days before Christmas, we shake our heads and wonder about the seeming randomness of it all. And we know that our turn will come in that same way. Here, then gone.
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