After a death, you eat and drink and remember the good things and try to laugh again. Grief profits no one, least of all the departed, who are quit o… - Morris West

you will suffer something else: a psychic trauma, a personality change whose dimensions still elude full explanation. You will be emotionally fragile – as prone to tears as to rage. You will be subject to depressions, sudden, black and sometimes suicidal. At one moment you will be as dependent as a child, seeking reassurance after a nightmare. The next you will be angry and frustrated by your own impotence. Your short-term memory may be defective. Your tolerance of emotional stress will be greatly reduced. You will be strongly advised by the counsellors who will be working with

You I admire as being more, — much more — a man, and more believer too, than half the canting orthodox.

Each of us can walk only the path he sees at his own feet. Each of us is subject to the consequences of his own belief.