When all is serene within and we feel the currents flowing gently through us, we are attuned to our higher self and to the unspoken need of our neighbor. We are, at least momentarily, in synchrony with nature's rhythm. With an ever receding horizon of opportunity before us we can dare to believe in ourselves and in humanity's future, and we won't have to ask when life begins. Inwardly, whatever our current karma, we have a long history stretching back far beyond this present life, an ancestry of soul experience that has been eons in the making and holds the promise of unimagined richness of quality and power to be unfolded in future cycles. Think what a release such a vision brings when grievous illness strikes.
Death comes to all, young and old alike.