I’m gearing up for next semester’s PHIL 500 class. The theme will be Death and Immortality. Recently, Huston Smith was profiled in Shambhala Sun magazine, but here is a short article from CNN.Com on his response to his daughter’s death.
Huston Smith sat at the bedside of his firstborn child, watching her life ebb away. “I have no complaints,” Karen Smith told her father. “I am at peace.”
But as Smith sat at his daughter’s bedside, the wisdom of the ages offered little consolation. “I would sob uncontrollably, crying in anguish,” he said. Smith had to confront a new reality: Who does the sage turn to when he needs help?