Death, humor, and the looking unknown - Elizabethton Star

Death, humor, and the looking unknown - Elizabethton Star

BY ROBERT C. KOEHLER Let’s call it the human guessing game. There comes a point in life when we find ourselves playing it whether we want to or not. Hallelujah for a sense of humor. It gives (temporary) relief from the unrelenting unknown… of dying. Yeah, I said it, not abstractly or politically, but personally. It’s not simply that “people” are going to die, or “you” are going to die. I’m going to die. I don’t know when. I’m full of determinati…