Great Regulars: Death may be an inevitable passing

of what we were while alive, but it doesn't mean that death can govern us when we are dead.

The universality of our physical existence is the emphasis when the poet says "Dead men naked they shall be one"--we are returned to our block humanity once we have eschewed our individuality through lack of a heartbeat.

from Frieda Hughes: The Times: Monday Poem: Peace everlasting

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