 And, let's see, Bill Buckmaster sent this article in that he would like me to share with you. Death is the third real topic that no one in our culture wants to talk about, and it's understandable. Most fear death, even though we know it's inevitable. Until Ann, my wife of 51 years, was told in June of 23 that she had an operable cancerous tumor, death was something that happened only to others.