Art Buchwald, the inimitable newspaper columnist, is dying. A writer to the end, of course he writes a column about dying, which appeared in newspapers this week, on Tuesday, March 14….<\/p>\n
Ordinarily, people don’t talk about death. Yet it’s very much a part of our lives. I’m in a hospice and seem to have a lot of time to talk about it. My friends and I discuss what death is and where we’re supposed to go after it happens.<\/p>\n
People constantly ask me if there is an afterlife. It’s a good chance for me to philosophize. I tell them, “If I knew I would tell you.”<\/p>\n
This does not mean that everyone knows more than I do on the subject, including priests (Christian and Hindu), rabbis and imams.<\/p>\n
I haven’t made up my mind which one of these groups has the answer, but the nice thing about a hospice is we can talk about death openly. Most people are afraid that if they even mention it, they will bring bad karma on themselves….<\/p><\/blockquote>\n