The thing that grieves me is atrophy and death. I know that some people are going to freeze to death during this winter, a slow painful and scary death. I can't do anything for them. I'm just an ordinary man. I also worry about the people in my family that are getting very old; it haunts me every day. I think about death every day for a short time, usually about 3 minutes, sometimes more. I often remember accidentally seeing an execution of a murderer convict, she was beheaded. I still remember the horrible stress and anger in her voice as she protested her innocence, then the silence when the sword came down.
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