Commentary

Started December, 2008


 

 

 

Death & Dying

 

"For what is it to die... But to stand in the sun and melt into the wind"?

  
Khalil Gibran

 

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"The art of living well and the art of dying well are one"
 
   Epicurus

 

 

 

"Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee".
 
   John Donne
 

"Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality"

  
Jean Paul Richter

"The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying"

 
Jean Paul Richter
 
"Death - the last sleep?
No, it is the final awakening."

  
Walter Scott

 

 

"There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colors of life in all their purity".

  
George Santayana

 

 

 

When the heart weeps for what it has lost, the soul laughs for what it has found.

  
◊ Sufi aphorism

 

 

 

For a Better Informed & Involved Public...

 

Lonnie J. Burris
Activist & Concerned Citizen

"The bitterest tears shed over graves...
are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone"

   Harriet Beecher Stowe