title: Final Moments: Conversations with the Angel of Death
author: Charles McDowell
description: <b>Charles McDowell</b> is retired and lives in rural Virginia.
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  Chapter One
  
  Every day on earth, an average of one hundred and fifty four thousand people
  died. The man walking along the dock had no idea that he was about to become
  one of them.
  
  Only minutes left, ticking down to the last breath, the final heartbeat.
  
  An angel named Friday waited unseen by the man’s side. It was his
  responsibility to collect the soul of the departed and escort him—or her—to
  the next world.
  
  Most people died by degrees. But some, like Zachary Logan, were caught by
  surprise. He was thirty-five but looked forty, his dark good looks bl