the way one sees it

Hawking made a prediction just before he passed away...this is the way I heard it....he predicted the world  would end shortly after he died. It is quite understandable anyone would think at the end of their life that those were the end times. Many believers in Christ think He will return and that those are the end times. The end times are for us individually or are they for everyone collectively? Depends on your definition of the end times I guess, individually or collectively. Some people drift off quietly in private. Others like to exit with a crowd around them. But the bald fact is we each go alone into the night as we cross the River of Lethe otherwise known also as the Sea of Forgetfulness.