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A Strange Victory Death of a Nineteen-year-old
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We Are The Lord's
AN ANTHOLOGY OF SELECT FUNERAL MESSAGES
Death is seen as a friend when it comes to a loved one in the fulness of years, when the prospect is no longer for a full life but instead for a limited, and sometimes painful, existence. And so the Greeks spoke of a good life being capped by a "good" death, one that came with dignity, and peacefully, at the end of a long and useful life. Often we speak of how peacefully someone died. However, the death of a young person, like Doug, who died at the age of nineteen, strikes hard at our composure, and can even shake our faith to its foundations.