Many other stray thoughts.

Summer of death;
A brother in Clemson, a good friend's mother, a former student, a friend of my siblings, gone.
Scary and true.
Not Final, alhough it seems to be.

What have been helps?
Ecclesiastes
Job: how and how not to counsel
Lazarus (Jn 11), Jesus wept
1 Corinthians 15
1 Thessalonians 4
Resurrection of the Dead
Jesus, the firstborn from the dead