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But she left him. That night the angels came back for her, like she'd asked them to. And nobody who saw the heartbreak on Grandpa's face when Granny breathed her last would have thought for one minute that he was glad to get shet of her . . . . — Olive Ann Burns Cold Sassy Tree

I'll try to be around and about. But if I'm not, then you know that I'm behind your eyelids, and I'll meet you there — Terence McKenna

Upon learning that her cancer had spread to her spine, Paula prepared her thirteen year - old son for her death by writing him a letter of farewell that moved me to tears. In her final paragraph she reminded him that the lungs in the human fetus do not breathe, nor do its eyes see. Thus, the embryo is being prepared for an existence it cannot yet imagine — Irvin D. Yalom Momma and the...

{They} took it upon themselves to start the laborious process of cranking up life again, after death has stopped us all in its tracks. — Diane Setterfield

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 courage to continue before the face of despair is the recognition in those eyes of darkness we find our own night vision. Women blessed with death-eyes are fearless.

She died in my arms saying, "I don't want to die." That is what death is like. It doesn't matter what uniforms the soldiers are wearing. It doesn't matter how good the weapons are. I thought if...

Death is not a tragedy to the one who dies; to have wasted the life before that death, that is the tragedy. — Orson Scott Card Shadow of the...

All my life I had lived on the presumption that there was no existence beyond... flesh, the moment of being alive... then nothing. I had searched in superstition... But there was nothing. Then I heard the sound of my own life leaving me. It was so... tender. I regretted that I had paid it no attention. Then I believed in the wisdom of what other men had found before me... I saw that those simple things might be true... I never wanted to believe in them because it was better to fight my own battle. You can believe in something without compromising the burden of your own existence. — Sebastian Faulks Birdsong

Time, the Captain said, is not what you think. He sat down next to Eddie. Dying? Not the end of everything. We think it is. But what happens on earth is only the beginning. — Mitch Albom The Five People...

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