“Remember you are dust, and to dust you shall return.” From the Ash Wednesday Liturgy Most of us do not like thinking about our own mortality. Despite knowing that we will not live forever, there is a general avoidance of really sitting with that fact. I knew a colleague long ago who led a Lenten retreat where everyone had to write their own obituary and then lie prone on a pew while the burial rite was read. That seemed like quite a lot, but I understand the impulse. Our tra