I know quite a lot about fear and have some notion of death.   I know my strengths and weaknesses.   Sometimes I feel I know what it is that calls me back, and then I lose it again.   I like looking over the edge, into the world where the ghosts have stepped, and returning with a fuller view of living.  I feel privileged to have enjoyed such moments in my life. I have seen things about myself and my friends that I would never otherwise have seen.   I have discovered the scale of my strength and the depth of my frailty and have been forced to accept, however reluctantly, our fragile mortality.

 Joe Simpson - This Game of Ghosts