Death, is at work in each of us. br He devours every element of life br within our mortal body. When he br has had his fill, we shall no longer br be, of earthly matter. br br I fear not death, but life. For death br comes unannounced, like the howling br of a December wind and swoops up man, br as he would a dead leaf....and whisks us off into br the great abyss.