So You Have disappeared off the Face of the Earth

So you have disappeared off the face of the earth and have gone forever.

There is the person we hear about on the news who has gone missing and is presumed dead.
There is that one lone person who was murdered, a Jane Doe, whose spirit stayed alive.
Lets not forget the dead who live on in our histories because they made a point of being remembered whether we wanted to remember them or not.

and then, there are those bodies with silent spirits.

What good is a dead body whose spirit lingers on?

What good is a live body whose spirit remains silent?

One of them is still giving;

One is still teaching;

And One of them is still alive.