A Commonplace Book

Category: death...

  • the genealogist working backward - using birth, death, marriage registrations, wills, and other documents
  • Mount McKinley to Death Valleys
  • accepting the inevitableness of your own death so you become free to live
  • making something that will endure after your death
  • experiencing life and death in each moment, paying attention to living fully so you will not worry about death
  • death to mosquitos
  • the Buddhist concept of birth-death-rebirth
  • writing a letter(s) to be delivered in the event of your death
  • Where will you go after death?
  • Consider the changing seasons and how there could never be new growth without decay and death.
  • Death is not feared by one who has lived wisely.
  • thanatology - the study of death
  • the understanding care of the dying
  • Have the courage to live. Anyone can die. (R. Cody)
  • Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows. (Pope Paul VI)
  • Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist. (Epicurus)

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