Valar Morghulis

December is the darkest month of the year. It is the month when the solstice falls and the Romans celebrated Sol Invictus, the undying sun. Of course, one day our sun really will die. As we all die. I don't remember how it happens for our sun. Not much will matter for Earth past that whole red giant phase we've got coming up. Long after I'm dead. Shakespeare called death The Undiscovered Country. In Star Trek VI they kind of botched it and said he meant the future. Our doom. Death is something, in the end, we are all powerless to prevent. Friends die. Our parents die. Our children die.