Some volunteers of America won’t quit, even when they’re dying—or supposed to be as good as dead. Such was the case with veteran American volunteers Bill and Susan Burtness of Illinois. Now in their 70s, they advise fellow volunteers who may be weary from well-doing,  ”Don’t quit. the best is yet to come.” “If you persevere, the volunteering life just keeps getting better and better,” Burtness said from his home on Jan. 10, 2022. Not that hard and trying times are absent in volunteering. There was the time Bill was lying in a hospital in a cage, strapped to a concrete slab in a foreign nation, with buckets of water being thrown on him to wash the blood off. To make matters worse, he was in a terminally ill ward in a Dutch hospital, not expected to live. “Yes, that was pretty hard,” Bill said.  “That happened while Susan and …