Editorial February 13, 1989 Issue

What death does not do

Allison W. Phinney, Jr.

It's life of course, not death, that has all the values, all the things we most love.

Yet haven't most of us felt at some time that death has shown a complete and desolating power by closing down a life —the life of someone we loved more than we could ever put into words?

It raises some of the hardest questions. The last thing we want is smooth, familiar answers. But reaching out for reassurance and healing of grief, we may find quite unexpected insights coming to us along the way.

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