Death

 

And When I Die

And when I die and when I'm gone
There'll be one child born
In this world, carry on, to carry on

We all die, but the world carries on

·        Norman Lear, 101, American screenwriter and producer

·        Sandra Day O'Connor, 93, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court

·        Henry Kissinger, 100, German-born American diplomat and politician.

·        Rosalynn Carter, 96, First lady of the United States

·        Maryanne Trump Barry, 86, Judge and sister of Donald J. Trump.

·        Frank Borman, 95, Astronaut.

·        Bob Knight, 83, Hall of Fame basketball coach

In recent weeks, obituary writers have been kept busy by the deaths of many notable Americans.  The partial list above of the most famous people shows the good and bad, who have died mostly at very old ages.  “The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones.”  They, and we all eventually, will be interred. But there will be a world that remembers us.  The individual eventually dies, but the group lives.  Is this a lesson that the group is more important than the individual?  Carry on.