I just got done talking to my sis, Jude, thus making a needed holiday connection.  Of course, we talked of many things, all around.  At one point the conversation turned to Death and I declared that even that is something to look forward to, if inevitable, and one has the power to meet it head on.  Like knowing one’s about to die on a battlefield but glistening with the energy to take as many of the enemy with you (thus saving comrades) as you possibly can.  “Of course,” I mentioned, “Death is common and awaits us all.  Yet it’s unique to us individually in our never having experienced it before.”  “Well, there are those who have had near-death experiences,”  she corrected me.  My reply: “Near-death experience?  I’ve never had one of those.  I did have a near-life experience once, though.”