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Although some of us have sweet and untroubled deaths, we need to face the fact that for others dying will be a rough passage.

These things can be rough:

• Constricted breathing

• Accumulating fluids

• Terror

• Excruciating pain

• Loneliness

• Loss of control

• The death rattle

Some cry out to end it all, and a few do just that.

There is another way to approach this, however: to gain experience of coming through rough passages in life, and so also in death.

A rough passage in life might consist of any of these things:

• An illness

• A broken relationship

• An unjust situation

• Breakdown

• Debt

• Failure

Always remember that the journey is as important as the destination. How we handle defeat is more important than what we have lost. Qualities of perseverance, humility and unselfishness can only grow if we have arenas in which to exercise them.

Practise being fully present to another during a rough moment today. Hang on in there. Make it your aim to exit this life as an overcomer; to go out in triumph, not defeat.