Of the Ages

Relative to your article “Forever Young” (by Mark Christensen, June 21), the following passage is read from the Gates of Repentance by Reform Jews at Yom Kippur: “If some messenger were to come to us with the offer that death should be overthrown, but with the one inseparable condition that birth should also cease; if the existing generation were given the chance to live forever, but on the clear understanding that never again would there be a child, or a youth, or first love, never again new persons with new hopes, new ideas, new achievements; ourselves for always and never any other--could the answer be in doubt?

“We shall not fear the summons of death; we shall remember those who have gone before us, and those who will come after us.”

David E. Ross

Agoura