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Terminal Sedation at the End of Life: When a person is dying, sedation is sometimes the only way to ease unbearable suffering -
National Donate Life Month Reminds Us To Give: Organ donors can help provide a form of life after death -
How Dare You Die Now!: Acknowledging the anger or pain of an earlier-than-expected death
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Tag Archives: Life
“We need scores of things to die every minute in order for us and our way of life to keep on going… Life doesn’t feed on life. Life doesn’t nourish life. Death feeds life.”
- Stephen Jenkinson
The Painter Who Followed the Light
Thomas Kinkade celebrates life and portrays death through his art
Growing up, the Thomas Kinkade store in Staten Island Mall served as a landmark to me and my family. Some of my most distinct childhood memories are of roaming those aisles of paintings for hours, while my mom and aunt … Continue reading
Altars of Loneliness: The Art of Joseph Cornell
Groundbreaking American artist expresses disenfranchised grief through surrealist assemblage
Joseph Cornell (1903-1972) is widely known as an American artist whose work influenced key developments in the contemporary art world, such as the Fluxus movement and the rise of installation art. His favored techniques of collage and assemblage using common, found … Continue reading
“Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.”
- Delmore Schwartz
Posted in A Rite of Passage
Tagged Delmore Schwartz, Fire, Life, poems, Poetry, Poetry about Life, Quotes about Death, Quotes about Life
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- Oscar Wilde
