Awake! and arise from the dust, and hear the words of a trembling parent, whose limbs ye must soon lay down in the cold and silent grave, from whence no traveler can return; a few more days and I go the way of all the earth. (2 Nephi 1:14)
The undiscovered country from whose bourn No traveller returns. -Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 1
The metaphor is not unique with Shakespeare. It occurs also in the Bible: "I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death" (Job 10:21)
thanks for the info. i often wonder if rigdon was the academic behind the bom. if you can refer to the bom as academic. he stayed right to the bitter end. only protesting when his wife and daughter were propositioned by smith. then he fought for the leadership tooth and nail. could smith have just been his front man.