“We are all at one stage or another of being unfinished. We can be born with deficiencies, or incur disabilities, some of which last through life. In fact, we are never finished while death is still in front of us. When there is something that cannot be resolved or fulfilled within our present span of life, it helps to remember that our life was not something we had a right to in the first place; it is simply gift. And our present life is not the whole of it.”

— Peter Cullinane

Unmoored https://nzcatholic.org.nz/2021/08/31/unmoored/ (August 31, 2021)

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Variant: Death is not an event of life. Death is not lived through.
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