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Be Not Afraid DyingChapter 1DyingEven in his late eighties, my wife’s father, Hans, madetrips from Connecticut to Europe. A self-taught scholarwith a passion for history and religion, he wasn’t goingto let age get in the way of conferences and tours.If meeting interesting people required flying longdistances, so be it. After all, traveling didn’t wear himout. It rejuvenated him. A family member predicted,“When he dies, he’ll die in harness.”On Christmas Eve, 1992, at the age of ninety, Hanswas sitting on a hay bale, a shepherd’s cloak over hisshoulders and a wooden staff in his hand, havingvolunteered to join in an outdoor nativity pageant.Feeling cold, he asked to be taken indoors, and soonsomeone was driving him home, just a stone’s throwaway. But Hans never made it. Opening the car doorfor him after the ride, his driver found that he was nolonger alive.166