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Be Not Afraid EpilogueEpIlOGuEIt is clear that when a person dies, eternity knocks at hisdoor. Yet doesn’t it knock for each of us, all the time?If we are elderly or ill, this isn’t hard to imagine. It ismuch harder for those of us who are in good health,or in the prime of life. Then we are far more likely tosee death as a negative thing, and to push it away asan unwanted reminder that not every dream of a long,happy life comes true. But even if we push it away,we can never know, when we get up in the morning,whether we have decades in front of us, or only days.Just weeks ago my 32-year-old niece Carmen, asecond-grade teacher and mother of four, was busybalancing the demands of parenthood and work; inthe meantime she’s been diagnosed with multiplesclerosis, and can neither stand at a blackboard norgive her baby a bath. Just weeks ago she was playingher viola at my youngest daughter’s wedding; now sheis so weak she can barely raise her head. Given thenature of her illness, Carmen could be on her feet againsoon. But she could also find herself wheelchair-boundfor the rest of her life.0