Death- Can you GUESS?

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Across
  1. 4. – The light that lingers when day is nearly gone
  2. 5. – The vast stage where both life and death are cast
  3. 8. – Both a burial site and a word for heavy seriousness
  4. 12. – Stillness that asks nothing more of the body
  5. 13. – Life as a circle, where endings are beginnings
  6. 14. – A silent artist that paints endings into soil
  7. 19. – A crossing over, but not one with a return ticket
  8. 23. – Conviction that unseen hands hold what is to come
  9. 25. – A house for those who no longer dwell among us
  10. 26. – The echo left behind after departure
Down
  1. 1. – The mind’s shadow cast forward in fear
  2. 2. – Not death, but its nightly rehearsal
  3. 3. – The answerless question at life’s edge
  4. 6. – Calm that silences turmoil, even at the end
  5. 7. – Standing tall even as the end draws near
  6. 9. – A name given to the fear none escape
  7. 10. – A harvester of what cannot be replanted
  8. 11. – A chamber meant for keeping secrets of the dead
  9. 15. – A place lost, yet imagined perfect in memory and myth
  10. 16. – When branches let go, preparing for winter’s stillness
  11. 17. – What the caterpillar calls death, the world calls change
  12. 18. – A gathering where absence is the honored guest
  13. 20. – What cradles roots and claims the fallen
  14. 21. – The surface walked in life, and returned to in death
  15. 22. – What remains when breath is absent
  16. 24. – Beyond the final breath, what some believe lies ahead