We live in a world where death is inevitable. All of our systems wear out. Within the various cultures across the globe, death is viewed in very different light

We live in a world where death is inevitable. All of our systems wear out. Within the various cultures across the globe, death is viewed in very different lights. Sometimes we can do something about it, sometimes we can't. Death can, in some cases, be quick and painless and in others slow and painful. How an individual handles this is very much up to that individual's internal being. What doesn't help is other people acting and living their lives in such a manner that brings hopelessness to the individual affected. The medical fraternity is one group that regularly hides death from themselves and the patients and their families. Yet they will also regularly kill those who they feel have nothing left to live for and without regard to those individuals themselves. When I was at university all those decades ago, the medical students of the time had courses in handling death - how to deal with death themselves and how to deal with patients who are dying and how to deal with families so affected. It didn't seem to help those medical students. My own wife has survived four different kinds of cancers. The treatments she has undergone over the years has adversely affected her body and she suffers much now from those treatments from the past. We have been blessed that we are together and that we have seen and are seeing our children grow and our grandchildren grow. Just by living, each of us will face both good and bad. How we live each day is predicated on what gives us hope and what we see for the future. If there is no hope then death is a dark time ahead. For me and mine, death, when it comes, will be a doorway into a better, greater future in the glorious presence of my God and Saviour. Till that time, we are here to live as examples to those around us with hope, joy and love.