Read a chapter in Lewis Thomas’s The Lives of a Cell this morning. He cites William Osler as saying there is no such thing as the agony of dying. I can see that death can be peaceful, maybe always is, even if one is being burnt at the stake: death can be the release. Although I think there can be a tensing against it, a gritting of the teeth, which can make it agony. But the moment, the moment, is likely to be gentle welcoming.
:- Doug.
