Nelson Mandela’s Long Goodbye Has Lessons For All of Us

Nelson Mandela is dying.
Hard as it is to accept the fact, the world has to come to terms with it.
It’s not surprising that South Africans are praying for his recovery. But perhaps a final gesture of gratitude to the man who is indisputably the Father of the Nation is to pray for his peaceful death. Or passing. Or transition. If those euphemisms offer some solace and sound less final than death.