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Why are so many of my elderly friends in denial about death?

13 April 2020

4:00 PM

13 April 2020

4:00 PM

Here’s a cheerful thought: we are all going to die. Some of my friends are under 70 but most, now I come to count them, are not. We have had our Biblical allocation of three score years and ten and then some. So imagine my surprise to discover how unprepared many of my senior crowd are for death.

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