Death

When it is time to die, let us not discover that we never lived - Henry David Thoreau

We live quite unperturbed by the death of 14,000 humans every hour. We live happily even with the firm knowledge that we will die. Why then should we find it so difficult to live in a world of conflict and trouble? - Robert Muller

We have, as part of our training with the Befrienders, to go through an exercise where we imagine that we?re going to die, right from the beginning to the way we?d organise our funeral and the final scene. The more I read about death and the more I talk about it, the less strange it becomes. It?s inevitable, and I think our society is starting to address the topic. There are far more TV programmes about death and dying http://www.oxfordmuse.com/selfportrait/portrait100.html

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death - James Francis Byrnes

The question is not whether we will die, but how we will die - Jean Borysenko

The most unfair thing about life is the way it ends. I mean, life is tough. It takes up a lot of your time. What do you get at the end of it? A death. What's that, a bonus? I think the life cycle is all backwards. You should die first, get it out of the way. Then you live in an old age home. You get kicked out when you're too young, you get a gold watch, you go to work. You work forty years until you're young enough to enjoy your retirement. You do drugs, alcohol, you party, you get ready for high school. You go to grade school, you become a kid, you play, you have no responsibilities, you become a little baby, you go back into the womb, you spend your last nine months floating...you finish off as a gleam - Andy Rooney

The flowers of the city; Though breathlike, get deathlike at times; And there's no use in tryin', T' deal with the dyin', Though I cannot explain that in lines - from To Ramona - Bob Dylan

Tell me how you die, and I wil tell you how you live - Octavio Paz

Remembering I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart - Steve Jobs, http://m.news.com/2166-12_3-10271908-71.html

No black to be worn please (unless of course it's your best colour) - Sheila Gish