Author Archives: Kelly Larsen (Blog Writer, SevenPonds)

“Nature” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow puts an interesting spin on the personification of death

You’ve no doubt caught on to the pun of my column’s title, “The Next Chapter”; how my posts are about literature, thus “chapters,” and also how death is a kind of “next stage” in life. This idea of death as … Continue reading

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“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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