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Be Not Afraid ReverenceTo be honest, I felt the same about a lot of otherthings people brought him: beer, hard liquor, dozens ofCDs, posters, headphones, a radio, a new stereo systemwith six speakers, a Rio player for downloading musicfrom the Internet, and on and on.I remember talking about it with my husband andwondering: Is this really the best way of showingkindness to someone with cancer – dumping a lot ofjunk on him? Sure, we knew it would comfort him ina material way. But ultimately, these gifts were justthings – things to divert him from real life-and-deathissues he needed to face. Matt felt the same way aboutmost of it, and at one point he cleared a lot of that stuffout of his room.Anyway, I was concerned that Matt would want tospend what turned out to be one of the last afternoonsof his life watching movies, and I said so. But he did notagree with me at all. He said, “I just want to be able tolaugh and forget about things for a few hours! How canyou be my moral compass now?” He was so mad.I was in tears, because I was thinking, “Here’s thispoor kid who just wants to escape for a few hours.Doesn’t he have a right to do that – to have a little fun?”Besides, I had just read this book on death and dyingwhere the author talks about how important it is tocreate peace around a dying person. The book said, “no46