{"id":6324,"date":"2022-09-02T22:05:56","date_gmt":"2022-09-02T22:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/farefwd.com\/?p=6324"},"modified":"2022-09-30T21:34:19","modified_gmt":"2022-09-30T21:34:19","slug":"opening-remarks-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/farefwd.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/02\/opening-remarks-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Opening Remarks"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Refusing to face the reality of our deaths only gives death more power over our lives.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Dear Readers,<\/p>

As I have written in these pages<\/a> before<\/a>, I lost my mother-in-law and my mother within ten months of one another. A year later, I lost the only grandmother I knew. Losing someone close to you is an experience you can grasp in only one way. The utter finality of death is something we rarely encounter otherwise\u2014the person we once knew and touched is, as J.C. Scharl puts it, \u201cNot Here Anymore.\u201d When Death comes calling, we human beings find that we are indeed frail, helpless, and without power over our own fates.<\/p>

That is what this issue of Fare Forward<\/em> is about. Given that each of us will someday die\u2014rich or poor, gifted or clumsy, popular or obscure\u2014we firmly believe that this great enemy of humankind ought to be looked firmly in the face. Generations before us called this posture memento mori<\/em>\u2014remember that you will someday die. We moderns sometimes think that we might outwit death, as Alex Sosler writes in \u201cNeeding to Die.\u201d But in the end, this is only hubris. To acknowledge the eventual end of all our strivings is the better way.<\/p>

Refusing to face the reality of our deaths only gives death more power over our lives. Charlie Clark explores what a real life in our long-lasting, increasingly fragmented existences could be in \u201cDelete Your Account: Why Canceled Is the New Dead.\u201d J.C. Scharl wrestles with how to walk the road that acknowledges the reality of both death and life in \u201cMemento Mori, Memento Vitae.\u201d And in \u201cQuality of Life,\u201d poet Patricia L. Hamilton recalls her mother\u2019s last days and the release of the end.<\/p>

In \u201cGetting Acquainted with Death,\u201d Sara Holston interviews two Dominican priests who have, between them, ushered hundreds of dying souls out of this world. \u201cIt\u2019s funny,\u201d Father Timothy Danaher said during their interview. \u201cPeople are looking to me to be an authority on this\u2014but they\u2019re about to know far more about what happens after death than I do.\u201d Yet, he says, to those who are about to die, the great fear of death that most of us experience seems to recede in the face of the mystery before them.<\/p>

We shall all die, friends. Until then,<\/p>

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Fare forward,<\/p>

Sarah Clark<\/p>

Editor-in-chief<\/p><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Opening Remarks for Issue 22: Death. 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