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Buddhism and the Eastern Middle Ground: In Buddhist tradition, our death falls into a plane of existence that continues even after our final breath -
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10 Facts About Hospice Care You May Not Know: NHPCO stresses that hospice is about living fully, not preparing for death. -
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Man of Many Faces: A niece says goodbye to her favorite gay uncle, in whom she confided about her own sexuality
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Tag Archives: Quotes about Death
“We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.”
-David Sarnoff
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Book Review: Healing After Loss, by Martha W. Hickman
Sorting your way through grief a little at a time, day by day
As we approach the holidays, it can be both a joyful and a sorrowful time for those who have lost loved ones. For a season that cherishes time spent with friends and family, it can be also be a harsh … Continue reading
“Being fired has some of the advantages of dying without its supreme disadvantages. People say extra-nice things about you, and you get to hear them.”
-Howard Zinn
Photo Credit: The New York Times
“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
-Douglas Adams
“Stop worrying about the world ending today. It’s already tomorrow in Australia.”
-Charles M. Schulz
Photo Credit: Orange County Archives Flickr
“My uncle Sammy was an angry man. He had printed on his tombstone: What are you looking at?”
-Margaret Smith
Posted in Laughter is Medicine
Tagged Comical Quotes, Funny Quotes, Margaret Smith, Margaret Smith Quotes, Quotes about Death
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“I’m very pleased to be here. Let’s face it, at my age I’m very pleased to be anywhere.”
-George Burns
“He made death his ladder to the skies.”
-Edmund Spenser
Posted in A Right of Passage
Tagged Edmund Spenser, Edmund Spenser Quotes, Quotes about Death
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“There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?”
-Woody Allen
“Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.”
-Rabindranath Tagore
“For three days after death, hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.”
-Johnny Carson
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Tagged Funny Quotes, Johnny Carson, Johnny Carson Quotes, Quotes about Death
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“Death, in itself, is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.”
-John Dryden, from "Aureng-Zebe"
Posted in A Right of Passage
Tagged Aureng-Zebe, Death, John Dryden, Quotes about Death
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