“You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.” KnowsDeathLostDyingHavensHidingDivides Author:Vance Havner
“I really don't mind dying because I figure I haven't wasted this life. Up until my first book was published I had all this potential, people would say, and I screwed up. After it, I could say: No, I didn't screw up.” PeopleMindFirstsBookDyingHavensFiguresThis LifeScrewsScrewed UpScrew Ups Author:Robert M. Pirsig
“In the busy city, dying might be resented as a breach of good taste, and the body hastily dispatched to the undertaker and the crematorium; but in Lost Haven, where a man's mates had to turn out and dig his grave, it was an occasion shared by the whole community.” MenWholeBodyMightTurnsLostCommunityCitiesDyingHavensTasteBusyGravesOccasionsMatesGood TasteBreachUndertaker Book:Lost Haven Source: Lost Haven
“We also have people dying longer, we are able to keep people alive without much quality of life in many cases. We haven't done a great job of making healthspan match up with lifespan, which is both miserable and unbelievably costly - and frightening.” PeopleLifeDoneAbleJobsQualityCasesAliveDyingHavensMiserableFrighteningQuality Of LifeGreat JobPeople Dying Author:Ken Dychtwald
“I either want to be completely recovered or completely emaciated. It's the in between that I can't stand, the limbo of failure where you know that you haven't done your best at one or the other: dying or living.” KnowsWantI CanDoneDyingHavensLimbo Author:Marya Hornbacher
“I chose to be a photographer twenty-two years ago, but I don't know that I'd make that choice again. Back in the early eighties, I still thought I was doing okay, trying to order and shape the world with my camera. Now that I know a bit more about living and dying, about our planet and its complex problems, I'm a lot less comfortable with my images of people. Still, I haven't a clue what else to do.” PeopleKnowsWorldTryingYearsStillsTwoProblemOrderChoicesBitsDyingHavensPlanetsShapesComfortableYears AgoOkayTwentiesCamerasComplexesPhotographerTwo YearsClueEightyOur PlanetTwenty TwoTwo Years AgoComplex Problems Author:Eugene Richards