This collection of writings from popular writers and thinkers on the subjects of aging illness and death provides inspiration to those facing these realities ei ther in their own life or that of a loved one. It offers an abundance of riches mined from the depths of the human spirit. Here is a partial sampling: the Soul is Ageless (Gregory Nazianzen Thomas Moore); Suffering is a Gift (Mother Teresa); the Necessity of Tribulations (C. S. Lewis); Sister Death (Francis of Assisi); Keeping Ones Perspective (Una Kroll); Crossing the Bar (Alfred Lord Tennyson); Light at the