Hamlet and death

reflecting on Ellen’s life and memorial. I do remember this in one of my favorite Shakespeare plays: In Act V, Scene 1, of Hamlet, Hamlet and Horatio talk with a pair of gravediggers in a cemetery. When Hamlet looks upon the skulls of the dead, he imagines the life they had once enjoyed in the flesh. This leads him to picture the bones of Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar, once mighty men, now moldering in the dust like any other mortal. The reality of death hits Hamlet right in the gut, and he has a “this is your life” moment. Same with me this weekend. live life!…now, not something to postpone.