Drawing them is fun from a literary point of view. The stories are about humanity s encounter with death. They are about our struggle to understand and come to grips with the fact that all of us will die. They are about the paradox that all of us die, yet part of us live on, if in no other way, in the memories of others. Rejoicing at the immortality of friendship, they realize the indestructibility of love.
Love lives on even though the physical body dies.
They tell us we are part of the larger life-processes. We will all die, but new life will enter the world, for death and life emanate from the same source. That source, from which all things come, is symbolized by humans through the cross. Although in the west, we tend to see the cross as only a symbol of Christianity, the cross is universal, says Huston Smith, scholar of comparative religions. In the west, the cross tends to be vertical, upright, sometimes with Jesus dying on it.