AUTHOR'S FOREWORD Time, precious time, changes everything including our perspective. Looking back, when I was 9 or 10 years old, I thought my grandmother was really old. Today, I'm 20 years older than she was at that time in my life ... and I don't feel as old right now as I thought her to be then. In our young days we don't think about death, and we understand its full impact on life even less. Now as I have entered what I think...