IT'S NOT ABOUT THE INTELLECT

The intellectual framework we design to explain our feelings toward death doesn’t always stand the test of being exposed to it. We may find that every idea we have gives way to fear when someone we love is dying. But then, gradually, as we walk through the experience with them, and if we stay with them every step of the way, then when it’s over something happens. We think, “Wait a minute…I’m still here; I managed to look death in the eye and it didn’t kill me!” We’re transformed by the experience and on a level that has nothing to do with the intellect, we get the message that death can be faced, and does not have to be feared.