About death....

I just returned from a brisk walk on a stunningly beautiful blue sky day filled with sunlight.  I was in the shower enjoying the warm water when, all of a sudden, I thought of what it will be like to leave all the people I love and never see them again and I felt so sad it was almost like a punch in the stomach.  The mistake I made, of course, is that I will never know what it's like never to be able to see the people I love again, because I'll be dead.  And that means I won't know anything...I won't have the pleasure...but I won't have the any of the pain either.