Draining the Styx

Life is hard, then you die. It's the truth.

No matter how cleverly we disguise death with silk-lined caskets and magnificent bouquets, we are powerless to stop the inevitable: you will die. It is well and fine for your mourners to share heartfelt stories and mournful songs, but they will be going home, and you will still be in a casket.

Is that too blunt?

In Greek mythology, the river Styx separated the land of the living from Hades, the abode of the dead. When death came for you, the ferryma...