[“How, then, do we prepare ourselves for death? By living each day in the full awareness of being children of God, whose love is stronger than death. Speculations and concerns about the final days of our life are useless, but making each day into a celebration of our beloved-ness as sons and daughters of God will allow us to live our final days, whether short or long, as birthing days. The pains of dying are labor pains.  Through them, we leave the womb of this world and are born to the fullness of the children of God.”
~  Henri J.M. Nouwen]