It is rare to hear death talk about his job of gathering souls. Death was very busy in Germany during the Second World War. Since I was not enthusiastic about history and I have not seek out books to tell me more about Germany around that period, this book is an eye-opener.
I suppose it is futile to wonder why some people die during the war and others don't. The book thief's father, mother, brother, foster mother, foster father and best friend died earlier or in the bombing. Miraculously, she survived. Obviously the higher power dictated that she lived on to get married and have children.
Looking at statistics, one in seven adults in my country has diabetes. Similarly, one in seventeen adults here has cancer. Even for those who escaped these two diseases, they would die at some time due to some fatal ailment. One would sooner or later die, how would that came about seems immaterial. It is how we live, how we make use of the resources available to us that matters.
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