This world can leave us feeling unhinged – and perhaps especially as we deal with death. Death is why those words spoken by the doctor are so painful: “There’s nothing more we can do.” Death is why the day can begin with bright optimism and end in shadowy gloom. Death, for many people in this world, is the ultimate experience of hopelessness, the unequivocal end to hope, the unavoidable specter waiting for them and their loved ones.