George M (@mrickus)

I was glad to read the positive treatment of Mexico's "Day of the Dead." The humor especially took me. Some may see a familiarity as expressed by Francis of Assisi's "Sister Death," maybe a thought that death is as common to human experience as family. Everybody has a family, and everybody experiences death, often multiples of it. And with a faith that life persists after physical death, some see it as the doorway to a better afterlife. John Donne's poem, "Death be not proud" comes from this belief.