Exactly. Change is necessary in order that Life may advance and have an ongoing purpose. Change is desirable. So, in its own way, is Death. It's just the actual process of dying part that worries us. Dying can be painful and frightening in various ways. So can many other radical changes in Life.

Clinton, I doubt that providence is going to provide the sort of neat all-encompassing end solution to human imperfection that you have in mind. You would be better off, I think, to focus on the beauty in other people and in this planet...but if you don't want to that's your free choice.

It's easy enough to say that other people are causing all the problems in the World...but they are also doing all kinds of good and creative stuff that you and I enjoy and would be sad to be deprived of. If you don't think so, contemplate being suddenly left alone on a planet devoid of all other human beings and having to fend for yourself for the rest of your days. Would you relish such a situation? Who would make your next guitar or set of strings? Who would serve you a meal? Who would listen to you bitch about how bad people are? :-) It would be tough, I guarantee it.

- LH