Here is a link to the complete article that Elliott distributed tonight:
http://www.momentmag.com/moment/issues/2011/08/LifeDeath.html

One of the contributers is Dara Horn who wrote a book called The World to Come which I recommend highly:
http://www.darahorn.com/worldtocome.htm
It touches on some of the themes we talked about tonight and many others.

If you’ve read it (or after you read it now that I’ve recommended it)…BUT not before!…take a look at her comments about the “deliberately ambiguous” ending here:
http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=276468180611

-Laura