Dr Hugh Rae, ‘The Doc’, slipped away from this world early Monday morning, the 1st of June. He was 87 years old, but his leaving was sudden—barely three weeks from the diagnosis of cancer. He lived life in a hurry; it seems he left life in the same way.

Such life is insuppressible.

He taught us how to live well. In his dying, he taught us how to die well.

The evidence for the resurrection lies in those two sentences.

Even after two weeks I can say little more than I posted on my Facebook page when I received the news of his death: The best of men, the prince of men is gone; and we are orphans.