One of our own has personal ties to a victim of a violent crime. It is unimaginable to most of us how unsettling life must become to family and friends. Our sincerest condolences go out to these folks.
This experience has made us aware of a volume of poetry on the subject of death. Friend and author, Laurie Miller said this, "Thinking about death, I keep coming back to Dylan Thomas, who wrote so many wonderful things about it. 'Though lovers be lost love shall not;/ And death shall have no dominion.' Maybe it doesn't get much better than that."

Following:  A portion of the mariner's poem, "Death Shall Have No Dominion"

And death shall have no dominion
Dead men naked they shall be one
With the man in the wind and the west moon;
When their bones are picked clean and the clean bones gone.
They shall have stars at elbow and foot;
Though they go mad they shall be sane,
Though they sink through the sea they shall rise again
Though lovers be lost love shall not;
And death shall have no dominion.

http://www.dylanthomas.com/
~ Dylan Thomas (1914 - 1953) Welsh poet and writer
Photo: Wikipedia. Dylan Thomas' writing shed.