“Mind is not simply the collection of aggregate cells inside your brain. If you are only the grey matter, then when that dies, you won't exist any more. It's not that easy. You exist forever.” IfsMindMatterScienceDiesEasyBrainForeverBuddhismCellsCollectionsReincarnationGreyGrey Matter Author:Frederick Lenz
“I have been diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). It's a terminal disease with an average lifespan of two to five years post-diagnosis, and scientists don't know what causes it. ALS prevents your brain from talking to your muscles. As a result, muscles die. As a result, every 90 minutes people die. I am a person.” PeopleKnowsYearsPersonsHas BeensTwoDiesCausesResultsBrainTalkingFiveMinutesDiseaseScientistAveragePostsMusclesFive YearsAlsDiagnosisTerminalTerminal Disease Author:Steve Gleason
“To think of the myriad ways that we live is to think of the ways that we die: Delinquent in our brains, in debt-- If we settle, then, our due account and walk through the forest, Will we finally be free?” IfsThinkingWayDiesWalksBrainAccountsDebtDuesForestsSettlingDelinquents Author:Katy Lederer
“I believe there's more than this - that maybe when we die our brains conjure up some kind of shutdown experience, and that's what people try to sum up as the afterlife. But yeah, I think something else is going to happen and it's going to be crazy and confusing and weird, and we probably won't know what it's all about. It'll just be another place where we're trying to understand why we exist at all.” PeopleKnowsTryingBelieveKindHappensDiesI BelieveBrainCrazyAfterlifeConfusingBeing Crazy Author:Flying Lotus
“The health dollar is very precious. When someone has such a bad condition as brain cancer, we know they're going to die and they're usually going to die within 12 months of diagnosis. They cost a lot of money to keep the patient alive for that period of time. Is it really worth it?” KnowsDiesBrainAliveConditionsMonthsPeriodsCostDollarsPatientCancerLots Of MoneyWorth ItDiagnosisBrain Cancer Author:Charles Teo
“There are only three things to say about cocaine. One, there is no such thing as enough. Two, it will never be as good as the first time. Three, those first two facts constitute a tragedy of expense in ways that can't be experienced unless you've had cocaine. ... Your brain will settle into a puddle around your sinuses and you will die.” WayFirstsTwoEnoughFactsDiesThreeBrainFirst TimeTragedySettlingExpensesThree ThingsCocainePuddlesSinuses Book:Eve's Hollywood Source: Eve's Hollywood
“If I never am better then Kanye, in my brain, I'm always going to be trying to be, forever and ever until the day that I die.” IfsTryingDiesBrainForever Author:Kid Cudi
“But the best I've known Stays here, and changes, breaks, grows old, is blown About the winds of the world, and fades from brains Of living men, and dies.” MenWorldDeathDiesGrowsBrainKnownBreakWindFadesDecay Book:Delphi Complete Works of Rupert Brooke (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of Rupert Brooke (Illustrated)
“Authorities say brain cells may shrink, but they don't necessarily die. Frankly, I am cheered by the fact that something is shrinking. I'd be even more thrilled if what was shrinking affected my dress size, but you can't have everything.” IfsMayFactsDiesBrainAuthorityDressesSizeCellsAffectedShrinksShrinkingBrain Cells Author:Erma Bombeck