The novel i will never forget. I hadn't seen the movie before i read the ebook and i'm convinced that nobody should see one movie first if the story is worth be read in a book. This one written by Steven King many years ago, can be seen as a tragedy rather than a thriller. The reason i mention it today is simply the new death in our family, my grandfather Zakaria. When i learned about his stroke and then his passing away, i heard the words of Steven King in my mind and i felt like John Coffey, one of the main characters in the story. You may say i'm referring to his magic power to save others' life, something i couldn't do, as a doctor, to members of my own family like my late grandmother and now my grandfather, but although it is an issue it's nothing compared to the horrible picture about life i see before my eyes. Life is like waiting in the green mile and the verdict is given from the first beat of everybody's heart. We're all sentenced to death in this world and we cannot help it. We can only see each other leaving the green mile, as we say goodbye and mourn who is chosen by God. Babies knew it from the first breath and cried, we become just less smart as we grow up and make delusions about living for ever, all over keeping our parents, friends and soul mates with us. Death is the only truth and life is nothing but a green mile, whose next?.