What do people talk about at death? They talk about their families: their mothers, fathers, sons, and daughters. They talk about the love surrounding those special parts of their life. Or, perhaps, the love they withheld, the love they did not offer, or maybe the love they never felt. This is the true meaning in our lives—our spiritual human existence. Our families are what give us life’s meaning and where our purpose becomes clear. Our purpose is discovered through our families love. Families teach us many firsts: firsts loves, firsts pains, and firsts rejections. Ultimately, at our deaths, we do not use words of theology to talk about religion, we use family.
See Kerry Egan, What People Talk About Before They Die, CNN, December 20, 2016.
