The business of death is rich in both profits and emotion. Where do we go when we pass from the land of the living? Worse yet, who is going to pay for your last affair on mortal soil (the funeral) and who will purchase your headstone? One wishes there were easy answers to these questions that bother us so, especially considering how much of our lives are spent concerned with death. Clint Eastwood's Hereafter is brimming with both the reality of dying and the living with little clue of death's bitter mystery.
This article appears in Oct 21-27, 2010.