“If a man dies of cancer in fear and despair, then cry for his pain and celebrate his life. The other man, who fought like hell and laughed in the end, but also died, may have had an easier time in his final months, but took his leave with no more humanity.” IfsMenMayEndsPainHumanityDiesHellCryMonthsEasierDespairDiedFinalsCancerCelebrateLaughedEasier Times Book:Full House Source: Full House
“Everybody thinks that you go to Africa and you build a school, or you teach English, or you build a hospital. But actually all you need to do is play football with kids for six months and then after they've trusted you, you tell them about the truth of Aids, and that their grandmother didn't die from witchcraft, she died from Aids. And that's the biggest difference you can make.” ThinkingNeedsPlayKidsSchoolDiesDifferencesTeachFootballMonthsSixDiedAidsGrandmotherHospitalsTrustedSix MonthsWitchcraft Author:Tom Hiddleston
“There must be some unwritten law that says about fifty people have to move into your house when somebody dies. If it weren't for the smell of death clinging to the walls, you might think it was your family's turn to host the month neighborhood potluck supper.” PeopleIfsThinkingMightMovingLawDeathDiesTurnsHouseWallMonthsSmellFiftyNeighborhoodHostClingingSupperUnwrittenPotluck Book:Under the Wolf, Under the Dog Source: Under the Wolf, Under the Dog
“Here is an educational bombshell: Take from all of today's industrial nations all their industrial machinery and all their energy-distributing networks, and leave them all their ideologies, all their political leaders, and all their political organizations, and I can tell you that within six months, two billion people will die of starvation, having gone through great pain and deprivation along the way.” PeopleWayI CanTwoWisdomTodayPainPoliticalDiesPoliticsEnergyNationsLeaderEconomyGoneMonthsSixOrganizationEducationalBillionsIdeologyLiberalismSix MonthsMachineryStarvationDeprivationPolitical LeadersBombshells Author:R. Buckminster Fuller
“I will be dead in a few months. But it hasn't given me the slightest anxiety or worry. I always knew I was going to die.” DiesGivenWorryDyingMonthsAnxietyDeath And Dying Author:B. F. Skinner
“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
“More Americans die in gun homicides and suicides in six months than have died in the last 25 years in every terrorist attack and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq combined.” YearsWarLastsDiesMonthsSixGunDiedSuicideIraqTerroristAfghanistanSix MonthsTerrorist AttacksHomicide Author:Nicholas D. Kristof