It's A Man's World

Excerpt 2

“My funeral,” the Blue Man said, “Look at the mourners. Some did not even know me well, yet they came. Why? Did you ever wonder? Why people gather when others die? Why they feel they should?

“It is because the human spirit knows, deep down, that all lives interesct. That death doesn’t just take someone, it misses someone else, and in the small distance between being taken and being missed, lives are changed.

“You say you should have died instead of me, but during my time on earth, people died instead of me, too. It happens everyday. When lightning strikes a minute after you’re gone, or an airplane crashes that you might have been on. When your colleague falls ill and you do not. We think such things are random. But there is a balance to it all. One withers, another grows. Birth and death are a part of a whole.

“It is why people are drawn to babies…” He turned to the mourners, “And to funerals.”

- From Mitch Albom’s The Five People You Meet In Heaven