Both David and I have experienced the death of someone close to us. David lost his father in a farming accident when he was 13. It was sudden, unexpected, and shocking. I lost my father when I was 22, after watching him fight cancer for a little over 6 years. It was drawn out, expected, but still shocking when his death finally occurred. The grief that we both experienced was tremendous. These experiences shaped our lives and even our marriage. It's a conversation we have always had--from the very beginning of our marriage. We've always had life insurance and we've always talked about what the other spouse should do in the event of our death. Though it sounds morbid to have such conversations so early on in marriage, it also served us well to keep a sense of reality in our lives. We never know how long we have on this earth or how long someone else has...and therein lies the lesson of making the most of the days we now have. Eph...