My health does not allow me to go out as much as I would have liked to, and there are also security considerations. Nor can I take part in any public gatherings. I have had to apologise more times than I care to remember because I could not attend an event organised in my honour, and other occasions, whether joyous or sad, involving people who are close to me. Two of his brothers died before him, however, and they had not yet reached retirement age. At any rate, such is God's will.
Death comes when it comes.
All we can do is think of this world, and of humanity, which lives and dies in the space of a breath. I sit here, pondering these matters, and my sadness seems about to overwhelm me at times. My older brother's sons were very close to me. I played with them when they were children. The last time I saw the one who died recently was when he came to visit me in hospital, at the time of that unfortunate incident.