death-and-dying

No one dies pre-maturely. As is meant, happens naturally

Jest when we stopped wanting to kill ourselves, we started to die.

I sat down in a chair by the bed. The house got altogether still again, and I thought he was asleep. Just ever so quietly I reached over and laid my hand on his shoulder.He said, 'I love you too, Hannah."He didn't last long after that. Death had become his friend. They say that people, if they want to, can let themselves slip away when the time comes. I think that is what Nathan did. He was not false or greedy. When the time came to go, he went.

The sky looks comfortingly mundane compared to the garish kaleidoscope of the stained glass. It makes Rose yearn to be reliving any one of a thousand ordinary days spent with her ordinary older sister, who has now done this extraordinary thing and died.

It was good that she remembered him, though it was exhausting to do so.No rest for the weary. Or the dying. Or the dead.

What about you?" he asked, his words not much more than a mumble. "Regrets?""Many," Skuduggery said.Tesseract's breath rattled in his chest. "That's the goo thing about living. You get to make up for past mistakes.""Or make brand-new ones.

Tis only when faced with our own mortality that we truly realize what it means to be alive,

Just when we stopped wanting to kill ourselves, we started to die.

You__l live for as long as you live, and once you stop living, you don__ have to worry about staying alive any more because you__l be dead.

Death does not mark the end of a chapter in a man__ life, but the end of a book of man, the beautiful conclusion to his yearnings.

There are no more surprises and shocks in life, so that I watch the flame without agitation. For me the greatest reality is this and nothing else... Nothing else will worry or interest me in life hereafter.

Medicine and society have entered into a folie a deaux regarding medicine's importance in gigantic population ills. We believe that genetics and pills and enzymes bring us health. We wait for the dementia cure (the obesity cure, the diabetes cure) rather than changing our society to decrease incidence and severity. We slash social welfare programs and access to GPs and ignore the downstream effect this will have on future generations. To reduce non-communicable disease, the actions we need to take are societal: make it easier for people to move and eat well, strengthen education, promote community participation and meaningful work. Our collective delusion is that we can have all the benefits such a society would bring without the structural supports necessary to bring it into being, that we can attain health by inventing and buying drugs. It is hard to know which is the more utopian vision: magic pills or a society serious about prevention.

Be assured that any hurt to your spirit will pass in time. It is the nature of Death to take, but the nature of Life to give.

The palliative care nurses welcome him: he's a spot of brightness, they claim he keeps the patients interested in life. "We don't think of the clients here as dying," one of them said to him on his first visit. "After all everyone's dying, just some of us more slowly.

If (or rather when) you move to death, you__l learn its language through the educational process known as total immersion. (7)

DEATH IS A PROFOUND LESSON IN TRUTH: We grow to understand more about it from childhood until the day we must cross the mystic chasm and abandon the land of the living.

But here I should imagine the most terrible part of the whole punishment is, not the bodily pain at all__ut the certain knowledge that in an hour, then in ten minutes, then in half a minute, then now__his very instant__our soul must quit your body and that you will no longer be a man__nd that this is certain, certain!

the only way to get over a death is by seeing it as a life completed, instead of a life interrupted.