We run from death, hide from it. Death does not exist in the Corporate Nation, it is the great taboo, no one wants to see it, think about it, read about it. There’s no money in  talking about it. We hide the dying out of sight and drug them until they pass, we hate them for hanging on so long, for costing too much, needing so many pills and surgeries,  we keep them alive longer and longer because it does cost so much and makes so many rich.

On the farm, I learn that life and death are not two different things, but the two sides of one thing. There is an awful beauty to death because it sanctifies life and helps us to appreciate every day  that is given to us. Each morning, I wake up before the sun and I give thanks for my day of life. I have death to thank for that, without the one, the other would have little meaning. The farm and the animals here teach me that, all the time.