The person has gone over, has set out on the road from which no one comes back, and is now in a hallowed state of knowing and seeing that which is given to no living person. He or she has become an earth dweller as never before, sleeping quietly in the earth—but is also so far away from the earth, and marked by another world, as he or she never was in life. Today perhaps we must think of long, tormented hours, of illness and struggle and agitation—until death came, and all was very still and quiet.