God, Death, and Falling Cows

An interesting reflection from a former teacher.  Excerpts:

...At fifteen, the charming little man-lings in my class believed they could outfox God. They forgot (or never realized) the only important fact in these hypothetical end-of-life scenarios: not everyone gets a deathbed.

To drive this truth home to them, I would conjure up an image of the most ridiculous demise I could conceive of:

“You could be walking down the street one day and a cow might fall out of the sky and end you.”

“Whatever.”

“It could happen.”

“Whatever.”

The funny thing? Two years after I quit teaching high school, it actually did happen...