The traveler, who had previously hiked arduous paths to discover the gifts of Wisdom and Knowing, is now lying on a hospital bed, all hopes of embarking on another hike surely dashed. The stage 4 colon cancer has finally come to escort him to the door of death; the place he has spent his entire life fearing. His next breath comes out as a wheeze and an unbearable pain grips his chest. The heart monitor beep beep beeps in alert. Nurses...