Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother dies
Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother has died age 101 [news.bbc.co.uk], it was announced today by the Palace. She died peacefully in her sleep this afternoon. The [news.bbc.co.uk] BBC news site has a page of tributes from readers here and they also have the Queen Mother’s life in pictures here [news.bbc.co.uk].
How affected are we all by this? I don’t know. I imagine for many it will be a case of their favourite TV shows being replaced for a week. I guess only a few people knew her personally, though she probably touched the lives of quite a few more. Myself, I tend to see death fairly philosophically. There’s essentially two possibilites in my view, either the “soul” continues into another level of existance, or the essence of the dead person’s being simply blinks out. Either way the only person truely affected in the deepest sense is the person who has died. In which case I wish the best upon her soul.
