We live in a culture that works to divert our attention away from asking or talking about death. For many families, the issues that death raises are not talked about or taken care of. She was actually talking about things that most people considered too difficult or morbid to discuss, and I found her words to be extremely comforting. In December, my natural father's wife of nearly forty years died in an accident. Death is a subject that I believe every culture and civilization across time has struggled with.
Death brings up ancient, timeless questions.
It calls us to question the purpose and meaning of our existence here and now. It causes us to expand our consciousness as we reach out to the unknown and contemplate the extinction of some or perhaps all parts of our being. Questions like these call us to consider God. As mortals, we can never know the whole truth about death, but it is a direction in which we all head. Death is a common element we share with all beings on this planet.