death-and-dying

We born dyin'...But you ask a man an' he talk like he gonna live forevah.

Upon learning that her cancer had spread to her spine, Paula prepared her thirteen year-old son for her death by writing him a letter of farewell that moved me to years. In her final paragraph she reminded him that the lungs in the human fetus do not breathe, nor do it's eyes see. Thus, the embryo is being prepared for an existence it cannot yet imagine

[W]ishing for immortality won't make life last any longer.

The death of a lesser man is the death of all those who believe themselves to be greater.

Fiction is an urgent business. It is the Dying Us telling stories to the Dying Us, trying to crack the nonsense in our heads open with a big hammer pronto, before Death arrives.

Misery comes to miser; joy comes to wiser. (A Very Hot Cup of Tea, Empathy)Juvenile invites, youth tries, adult applies, and the old man dies. (A Straw Man, Empathy)In everyone, there lives a superhero. (The Medicine Man, Empathy)Faith is the strongest word in any dictionary. (The Wisdom Beard, Empathy)I__e entered into your feelings; it__ your turn now. (Empathy)

Life has to end," she said. "Love doesn't.

My God, if I had a heart, I would write my hate on ice, and wait for the sun to show.

Life on earth is temporary. May we pursue peace and live in harmony with one another.

At the end of life, nobody knows where the spirit goes.

Do I have anything to lose? This life will be gone one day to the Creator who gave it.

As I witness the dead of beloved ones, it makes be become more conscious that life indeed has an end.

Be happy but when sad times come, know that God allow these time for self-realisation.

When family gathers around for a dying loved one, I have realised, that it probably does more good for the living, than for the dying. Sometimes, death can bring the living together, and death can cause the living to find solace in one another. In this way, death is a part of life, and those who die can in fact give gifts to the living, gifts that they were not able to give while they were still alive and well.

I live nearby a graveyard, that's where I get all my inspiration for wisdom and life

Such is true joy__ absolute certainty,Its slow lit fuse that burns holesIn the shabby shroud of death forever.

I am waltzing with death, flirting with him, but he stands there smiling and saying nothing because he does not need to woo or be wooed: he knows he gets us all in the end.

The Romans_ ideal was torn between heroism and glory. Both are epitomized in the instant of death. To die __ine death_ was their obsession: to snatch that moment, to gather - carpere - the instant of death. Tiberius died from the effort he had expended at the age of seventy-three by throwing the javelin at a boar in the arena at Circeii. The moment of death isn__ just a subject for painters. It isn__ simply the stuff of the odes and annals. The moment of death exists in the amphitheatre: human sacrifices, bullfights, denudations, tortures and carnivorous scenes. The ancient Romans had taken over the __port_ associated with the figure of Phersu from the Etruscans. The populus romanus gambled on the men who would be put to death within the next hour- The jus gladii - this is the Roman Empire (the right of the sword, the right of life and death).