Death, Be Not Proud

The title echoes a line in John Donne's Holy Sonnets. Donne, a man of profound but not unquestioning faith, could contemplate death with greater assurance than many in this secular and materialistic age, yet we can, indeed must, come to terms with death according to whatever attitude, creed or other persuasion we adhere to. The portrait of John Donne is in the public domain in the Google imahe" domain