Living and Dying Well Today
Sunday, July 8th, 2007The longer I live the more I realize that not only is it important for us to learn how to live well, it is also important for us to learn how to die well too. I’ve written before about how a good friend of mine invited our group of friends to know him even more intimately as a friend after he was diagnosed as being HIV Positive. We were all given the privilege of walking through the day to day “being-ness” with our friend Norbert as he faced living and dying. One of the biggest lessons I learned was that each person gets to trip the light fantastic to their death as they see fit. It is not for me or any other loved one of theirs to put our beliefs, inspirations and fear onto them. We can share, of course, our own experience, strength and hope but in the final outcome how a person chooses to live and die is their own personal choice. (more…)
