Worth Reading; But Brace Yourself

I browsed BBC New's website today and came across this picture

The young girl in the picture at the right did not live through the mudslide that trapped her after a volcanic eruption in Columbia in 1985. BBC News tells the story of Frank Fournier the photographer who took this disturbing picture, in the article
Picture power: Tragedy of Omayra Sanchez.

I'm not a morbid person. However this story and this photo froze my happy-go-lucky web browsing and threw me into reflection. Not everyone has 60 hours to think about their imminent death. Then again we actually do, unless of course we fool ourselves into thinking that we aren't actually going to die. I think we all do that.

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