March 10

Death

Death is inevitable. We all know that but most of us don’t dwell on it, and for most of our lives don’t even think of our demise.

But, strangely, everyone is fascinated by sudden deals, disasters, man made or accidents. Death creates audiences, sells newspapers - a staple diet for almost two hundred years.

And there is so much death. This week we learned that the pandemic has killed six million.

The average yearly murder rate for England and Wales is 600. In a bad flu year 30,000 die.

Now, thousands are being killed in a senseless war in Ukraine, many of them civilians, including women and children, through indiscriminate shelling and bombing. 

We get it every day.We cannot shut our eyes or ears. We are horribly facinated by it.

A sad affair.