I spend most of Thursday at The Senior Center. Yesterday as I was leaving I said to one of my favorite old fellas that I would see him next week. He replied: "if I'm alive." That, of course, cracked me up. The two women sitting nearby who overheard the comment nodded enthusiastically in agreement.
Death is regularly on their conscious minds. Even if their physical death does not appear to be imminent, they still are wrangling with the reality that they are likely going to die sooner than later. I feel a great deal of compassion for them and I wonder what that must be like...
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