Just three letters and a question mark. But it's the age-old question that everyone asks at one time or another and some people ask quite often. Oh, how it hurts to see our loved ones leave this world. How it tears at our hearts to see them suffering. Even though we might pray for them to be released from pain, we are never quite prepared enough for that final parting.
Death is so final.
We ponder what appears to be senseless suffering - that emotional, psychological, physical, or spiritual affliction that comes in many forms. We wonder about death, especially the death of the very young. We feel they have not lived long enough. We do not like to see suffering, much less encounter it ourselves. We shove thoughts of death from our thinking.