Is it an illusion that we die? We see the flowers in the garden. Year after year they are there. They disappear and reappear and seem the same. It this why flowers and animals are so comforting? We don?t usually recognize them as individuals. So we see the continuity. There are the foxes in the valley; there is always a family of them in that place. They never seem to die. Why don?t we see human life that way? Why don?t we see the continuity? ? Rev. Tim Ashton