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 Following the trend of other

 Following the trend of other posters this week, I, too, find the concept of death as an inevitable and natural decomposition of parts comforting. It makes death easier to deal with. But what about children and young adults who die early from degenerative diseases? How can we explain the difference between a slow, timely, conventional movement from improbable to probable and a quick, erratic, and surprising completion of the process?

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