I thought about Ivy now and then, and inquired about her. I had no idea that I would never see her again. She had died, suddenly, apparently from a heart attack. That was it. Her death came as a shock to me and to her many friends on island.
Death is a natural and inevitable part of life.
Yet so many of us have trouble accepting and coping with it. In Western culture, many people try to deny it or fight it off. I believe that everything in life serves a purpose. I look for the meaning and the lessons in the events in my life. I had not been urgent about life.