Death often happens suddenly. A car accident, a plane crash, a fatal fight, a war, a flood, and so on. When we feel healthy and full of energy, we do…

When we lose a dear friend, someone we have loved deeply, we are left with a grief that can paralyse us emotionally for a long time. People we love become…

Every time we make the decision to love someone, we open ourselves to great suffering, because those we most love cause us not only great joy but also great pain.…

Many parents have to suffer the death of a child, at birth or at a very young age. There probably is no greater suffering than losing a child, since it…

It is very hard to accept an early death. When friends die who are seventy, eighty, or ninety years old, we may be in deep grief and miss them very…

Death is a passage to new life. That sounds very beautiful, but few of us desire to make this passage. It might be helpful to realise that our final passage…

Dying is returning home. But even though we have been told this many times by many people, we seldom desire to return home. We prefer to stay where we are.…

The poor have a treasure to offer precisely because they cannot return our favours. By not paying us for what we have done for them, they call us to inner…

When we think about death, we often think about what will happen to us after we have died. But it is more important to think about what will happen to…

As we grow older we have more and more people to remember, people who have died before us. It is very important to remember those who have loved us and…