well, i m not ready. i know it s going to happen and i figure i have to make the best of of my life on earth while it s happening. amen. i read the book and i was wondering whether there was going to be any sort of grappling with the harder parts of death. what happens after we die or why is it that people who have some sort of brush with death often feel like life is precious or sacred or changes sometimes their outlook and you don t get into that stuff at all. was that a conscious choice or the limits of a picture book or what about those issues? i wanted to deal in the book with the facts that you re going to die, we re all going to die. i didn t touch on dealing with death so much or questions about what might happen after death. david, i don t really want to come to terms with the fact that i m going to die. it helps me get through the die to live in this bubble that i m