Grief work

I wish I could give everyone I interact with some very simple homework. Go home, look in the mirror, and talk to yourself about death. Your own mortality; the sadness, anger, or confusion you may feel; your belief structure around what happens after death.

For the record, I need to complete this homework as well. And its not the type of homework that you complete once, hand in, and get an A...

Instead it is the type of homework that needs to be re-tested every week. The type of work that changes depending on your personal circumstance. The type of work that sometimes may seem perfectly simple, laughable really. On other days, it is the type of work that will be excruciating. 

But we need to do it. It's important.