June 1, 2013 Ronald George Jr.: Some people don't die, after all
If you live long enough you're gonna die. Do you believe that? I
do and I have seen it happen. Folks will get stiff and cold.
They will stop moving and talking. They will assume room
temperature, and to us who are warm and alive, that is cold.
That's when they say you are graveyard dead and dead as a
doornail. Now I understand the graveyard saying but what about
the doornail? I have seen doornails and they really don't look
anymore dead than any other tack, nail, or railroad spike. But
these doornails are stuck in a position to hold the door up.
They're cold and forgotten until someone kicks the door off its
hinges.  Why would you want to compare death to a doornail? I
don't know that, but I do know that we all have to walk that
lonesome valley and no one else can go there for you. You've got
to walk it all by yourself. I have heard people talking about
dying and paying taxes in the same breath as things that you
have to do no matter what. But