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“No one ever asks us if we want to be alive, doc. It just happens. Why wouldn’t it be the same with death? We’re always getting things we don’t ask for.”

Book:The Institute for Creative Dying

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“She thought about their time at Bridge Builders Hospice: how people passed through those bedrooms like ghosts on wrecked rowboats, incapable of redirecting course from the approaching cliff. She had witnessed it many times: the moment dying became a letting, and the currents plunged their patients, headfirst, into waterfalls so misty it was like sailing through cloud. Resist it nor not, it made no difference.”

Dying Hospice Creative Dying

Book:The Institute for Creative Dying

Source: The Institute for Creative Dying

“Three metamorphoses of the spirit have I designated to you: how the spirit became a camel, the camel a lion, and the lion at last a child.”

Philosophy

Book:Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“Dianne, when you’re reconciled to the reality that you have been dying, that death is the condition of your survival, your growth, the very earth you walk on… you feel a shift, an appreciation.”

Death Growth Dying Survival Creative Dying

Book:The Institute for Creative Dying

Source: The Institute for Creative Dying

“I'd die for him. There's nothing else to say. I'd give the last breath in my body and the last hope in my heart to keep him alive.”

Love Dying Alina

Book:Faefever

Source: Faefever

“Humans are so strange. Now I have seen you. It is odd. You do not look any different. Yet I know you must be. Dying changes a person.”

Death Change Dying Strange

Book:Black Wine

Source: Black Wine

“...his diminishing honours trailing away behind him like the tail of a comet - he had drooped in his chair after dinner, and the accumulation of ninety years had receded abruptly into history.”

Dying

Book:All Passion Spent

Source: All Passion Spent

“And then . . . the world seemed to fold in on itself. Everything fell away and scattered like ashes in a strong wind.”

Death Dying

Book:Dreck

Source: Dreck

“This is what it must be like for the newly dead looking in on the people you love from somewhere beyond--like walking on a pitch black street at night, passing windows of houses and looking in to see life, but life not seeing you.”

Death Dying Dead

Author:Caitlin Connors

“We were always waiting for the drop. That tense feeling in the house was an intangible change in the cadence of our life, like the pause in the middle of a serious conversation as you wait for the waiter to clear each plate off the table.”

Death Dying Cancer Hospice

Book:Irishman Dies from Stubbornness: Unbelievable Truths Behind the Life That Launched the Viral Obituary of Christopher Clifford Connors

Source: Irishman Dies from Stubbornness: Unbelievable Truths Behind the Life That Launched the Viral Obituary of Christopher Clifford Connors

“Every single one of us will get sick and die. Everyone we know and love will too. There's no escaping, but it is these hardest moments, these most difficult times, that show what we're truly made of and what we can truly overcome.”

Dying Hardship Getting Old

Author:Todd Perelmuter

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