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We Baby Boomers tend to think about death a whole lot more than we did a few years ago. I am reminded of that in some recent communication with one of my older brothers to whom I am very close and who is in his final days.
My son had just finished a word game on his phone, the aim of which was to solve a puzzle to decipher a phrase. “What do you think of this, Dad?” he asked as he slid the phone across the table to me. The solution to the puzzle had revealed a quote by French-Algerian philosopher Albert Camus: “For who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment’s human suffering?” I told my son I didn’t think the author really understood the concepts of eternal happiness or suffering.