Emphasis Preaching Journal

Untimely, cruel deaths can make legends out of people who have accomplished at least one significant life's task, as we can see in the way we have immortalized Lincoln and the Civil War, President Kennedy and the space program, and Martin Luther King, Jr., and the civil rights movement. However, death at the end of a long, struggling life can make for a sense of harvest in what grows from the labor that has been so faithfully rendered.