Jerry Kramer was a member of a team that once dominated the National Football league-the awesome Green Bay Packers under Coach Vince Lombardi.  Kramer is also an articulate man who has authored two best-selling books about his experiences. In his most recent book he reflects on his own sense of mortality. His words would be helpful for many of us. He writes,

"I think a lot about death these days, which is funny, too, because I've never been healthier. I've had only one serious illness in the past ten years, only one near death experience. I haven't broken a bone, not even a finger, since I stopped playing football sixteen years ago. My weight is not bad, about 240, twenty pounds less than when I stopped playing, and most of the time I feel awfully good. And yet now, more than ever, I sens…