Commentary: Meditating on death during a pandemic

I'm in quarantine, due to contact with someone who has come down with COVID-19, but I am showing no symptoms.Nonetheless, my isolation has given me time to think about how we are all going to die one day; we just don’t know when. It is easy to ignore death when we are young or in good health, but sickness and other disasters force us to recognize our finitude. A pandemic makes it impossible not to think about death.Death is the great leveler; it affects the rich and poor, the famous and th