Dr. Keefe thanks a colleague for an article he sent her to read on death and dying ("Dying with Style," ATR/LXX/4) and expresses her appreciation for the theme. "Death, dying, has been a long pre-occupation in my own work (and, I hope I can claim, in my own life) because of my work on baptism in the early church. Baptism was a dying. The font was a tomb. And the mood was triumph!"