Untimely, cruel deaths can make...
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Untimely, cruel deaths can make legends out of people who have accomplished at least one significant life's task, as we can see in the way we have immortalized Lincoln and the Civil War, President Kennedy and the space program, and Martin Luther King, Jr., and the civil rights movement. However, death at the end of a long, struggling life can make for a sense of harvest in what grows from the labor that has been so faithfully rendered.
Two examples of this are the lives of two dear friends, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Stanton, who shared 50 years of effort for women's suffrage in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. They grew old together in the movement and died before their dream was realized. But, realized it was in the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in 1920, several years after each had died! The harvest was given to those who came after them, but the harvest was possible because they gave their life's blood tirelessly for sake of the cause.
Two examples of this are the lives of two dear friends, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Stanton, who shared 50 years of effort for women's suffrage in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. They grew old together in the movement and died before their dream was realized. But, realized it was in the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in 1920, several years after each had died! The harvest was given to those who came after them, but the harvest was possible because they gave their life's blood tirelessly for sake of the cause.
