The Dash: Making a Difference with Your Life from Beginning to End *Very Good*

When your life is over, everything you did will be represented by a single dash between two dates---what will that dash mean for the people you have known and loved? As Joseph Epstein once said, “We do not choose to be born. We do not choose our parents, or the country of our birth. We do not, most of us, choose to die. . . . But within this realm of choicelessness, we do choose how we live.”