Ople, pride of the race

A NOTED author once wrote that a man has to reckon with not just one but three deaths.

The first, he said, is when his body ceases to function. The second is when he is put to his grave. The third is when, at some time in the future, his name is spoken for the last time–a reference to the time when he and his good deeds are totally forgotten by an ungrateful people.