Death—that one great certainty of life—haunts us all. It terrifies us—like children fearful of the dark—all the while calling to us, fascinating us, seducing us. No writer ever captured this dreadful dichotomy more eloquently than William Shakespeare in Hamlet’s soliloquy. In turn John Ford used it as a metaphor for the American frontier in a compelling scene in his 1946 Western classic My Darling
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