A lifetime of giving

“I’ve been thinking a lot about what it is that makes a person,” said young Angus McCullough as he stood before the draped casket of his girlfriend, Elizabeth. The crowd was packed together in the bright chapel—too many young people in somber clothing, with drawn faces. We seemed to hold a collective breath in anticipation. Could this stricken young boy lighten our grief, enlighten our dark thoughts?

“The physical body is one thing,” said Angus, “and then the soul... but it is the sum of all the interactions we have with other people... the parts of ourselves we share and that others hold onto... that make the person we are.”

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