There are certain questions that we are not meant to answer—but continually ponder.
The question of what comes after death is one of them.
Betty White once shared her own mother’s view of death near the end of her life—a saying that soothed Betty’s own fear of death—that once someone passes we can say: “Now they know the secret.” There’s wisdom in that levity. A reminder that what we believe we understand in this world is always partial. Temporary. Filtered through the limitations of physical reality.