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Chapter One

Life is hard

Dying’s easy

So n in order to create life It has to happen in a place that supports life, so approximately as rare as hen’s teeth, from the perspective of the universe Parents, in whatever forin From conception to birth, any nu of all the attention and energy required to care for a new life until it is old enough to look after itself

Life is full of toil, sacrifice, and pain, and fro We watch helplessly as year by year, our bodies age and fail, while our survival instincts co with the terrifying knowledge that ultimately death is inescapable It takes enormous effort to create and maintain a life, and the process is full of pitfalls and unexpected complications

Ending a life, by comparison, is simple Easy, even It can be done with a relatively htor a few ounces of lead

So difficult to bring about So easy to destroy

You’d think ould hold life in greater value than we do

I died in the water

I don’t know if I bled to death fro the ultimate terror of the human experience, once it’s over, the details of your death are unimportant It isn’t scary anyht at the end of it that people report in near-death experiences? Been there, done that

Granted, I never heard of anyone rushing toward the light and suddenly hearing the howling blare of a train’s horn