Thanks so much for posting this SD. It was fantastically interesting. Not uplifting, certainly, but well worth the read. My favorite part (other than the CF kid):
<b>We give death power precisely to the extent that we work to ignore it, to blind ourselves to its closeness, to imagine we have the power to stave it off forever.</b>
This is sort of my motto. Don't ignore death. Accept it, deal with it, even laugh in the face of it. It gives death less power... and you more. And now that someone "professional" has said it, I feel better. Hah.