Benjamin Franklin once said, "Nothing in this world is certain but death and taxes." This week we would not question the validity of what he said. The difference, however, is that April 15 and the time for paying our income taxes comes around once a year. Death comes only once in a lifetime to each of us as human beings. So we look at them and we deal with them differently.

It seems to me that we also deal with death differently than we did when I was a child. Medical science was not as advanced then as it is now. There were fewer hospitals and many people died in their homes. I remember very vividly, for example, my first experience of someone dying who had been very close to me, whom I had loved. It was my grandfather Benton. I remember being taken to his house. There was not a funeral …