I'm grieving for his family too, because they will naturally miss him desperately. But I'm not sad for Eldon himself, because he had a brilliant life and a notable career as a physcist, and I know he'll embrace the hereafter with the same open-minded gusto he
applied to everything in this life. In an odd way, a death is a kind of birthday: it marks the moment we enter the next world. I believe the challenges of the hereafter are no less daunting than the ones we face here.

But it's still a birthday, and a cause for celebration as well as sadness.