Death

We are like butterflies who flutter for a day

and think it is forever.

(Carl Sagan)

People used to die from germs. Now they die from bad habits.

Do not stand
          By my grave, and weep.
     I am not there,
          I do not sleep—
I am the thousand winds that blow
I am the diamond glints in snow
I am the sunlight on ripened grain,
I am the gentle, autumn rain.
As you awake with morning’s hush,
I am the swift, up-flingi

"The river needs to take the risk of entering the ocean because only then will fear disappear, because that’s where the river will know it’s not about disappearing into the ocean, but of becoming the ocean.”

(Khalil Gibran)

"Because it's a book about a man who doesn't know he's about to die and then dies. But if the man does know he's going to die and dies anyway, dies willingly, knowing he could stop it, then... isn't that the type of man you want to keep alive?"

— Stranger Than Fiction

Grief well