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Category Archives: Laughter is Medicine
“I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.”
-Clarence Darrow
Related SevenPonds Articles: “I want to die like my father, peacefully in his sleep, not screaming and terrified, like his passengers.” Some People Just Don’t Get Death “The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn’t get worse … Continue reading
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“I want to die like my father, peacefully in his sleep, not screaming and terrified, like his passengers.”
– Bob Monkhouse
More from Laughter is Medicine: Selective Reading Miracle Max’s Expert Advice “To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness”
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“The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn’t get worse every time Congress meets.”
- Will Rogers (1879-1935)
More from SevenPonds: Selective Reading “They say such nice things about people at their funerals. It makes me sad to realize that I’m going to miss mine by just a few days.” “Death is the most convenient time to tax … Continue reading
How to Cope with Death
Everyone has their own way of coping
More from Laughter is Medicine: Voltaire’s Famous Last Words After a Priest Asks Him to Renounce the Devil “I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying” “My doctor gave me six … Continue reading
“A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.”
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
Related SevenPonds Articles: “Either that wallpaper goes, or I do.” “Green” Memories “To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness”
Voltaire’s Famous Last Words After a Priest Asks Him to Renounce the Devil
"Now is not the time for making new enemies."
More Laughter is Medicine posts: Oscar Wilde’s last words Oscar Wilde on parents Elbert Hubbard on death
