not just in "Hamlet."

Further, all the great world literature has been about
death. Even Harry Potter gets into the act.

Professor Dumbledore says in the first Harry Potter book:
"To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure."

The fearsome villain in the Harry Potter series is named
"Voldemort," corrupt French for "Flight From Death."
Voldemort's main fault is his unnatural attempts to live forever and he
would stoop to any and all crime to do so.

But we all have to die, and in my opinion, dying and our
preparation for it are the most important facts of our life.

The following are the thoughts of the priest in the novel
"The Power and the Glory" by Graham Greene, who is sitting in
his jail cell in Mexico facing his execution during the persecution of
the church duringthe 1920s:

"What a fool he had been to think that he was strong
enough to stay when others fled. What an impossible fellow I am, he thought,
and how useless.

"I have done nothing for anybody. I might just as
well have never lived. His parents were dead.

"Soon, he wouldn't even be a memory . . . Tears poured
down his face . . . He felt only immense disappointment he had to go to
God empty-handed, and with nothing done at all.

"It seemed to him at that moment that it would have
been quite easy to have been a saint. It would have needed a little self
restraint and a little courage.

"He felt like someone who has missed happiness by
seconds at an appointed place. He knew now that at the end, there was only
one thing