Author Archives: Kelly Larsen (Blog Writer, SevenPonds)

“Death will be a great relief. No more interviews.”

-Katherine Hepburn
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“I’ve told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation.”

-Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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“Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.”

-George Eliot
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“I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.”

-Benjamin Franklin
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“Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.”

-Erik H. Erikson
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“Requiescat” by Matthew Arnold

Matthew Arnold's poem shows that death is the most enviable state

I was reading about the famous poet and critic Matthew Arnold recently, and I discovered that he died of sudden heart failure while running to catch a tram. While this is of course tragic, I also had to appreciate the … Continue reading

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