In this the legends of antiquity reflect the fundamental question of every human being who steps back from the vortex of life and asks and ponders the question of why we are here and what we are supposed to be. To ask this question, not just intellectually but with the whole of one s being, i an intrinsic aspect of human nature. And, in the last analysis, it is a question that no one else can answer for us. Yet alongside the urgency and essential solitariness of the question of our life and death, there exists the fact of love, its heat and warmth and the hope it can offer us. Alongside the essential aloneness of the question of why we live and die, there exists the communion of love.
Love also is an intrinsic defining aspect of human nature and human life.
Somewhere, somehow, the power of love seems to offer itself as an answer to the painful riddle of death. Yet the legends of antiquity and our own human experience often show us that love ultimately fails to answer that riddle. That is, our mortality defines us. Death is given to us, we cannot escape it. Love is surely the answer to death.