Death

thoughts on dying

The morning before he died in the final year of his seventies, he drafted a poem containing these lines:

You can’t tell when strange things with meaning

will happen. I’m [still] here writing it down

just the way it was. “You don’t have to

prove anything,” my mother said. “Just be ready

for what God sends.” I listened and put my hand

out in the sun again.

Maria Popova • Yes: William Stafford’s Poetic Calibration of Perspective

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We are like butterflies who flutter for a day

and think it is forever.

(Carl Sagan)

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"When death finds you, may it find you alive."

-African proverb

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

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Achilles Come Down

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The horrifying realization that there are people we have met, cared for, and even might have loved, and they could be dead tomorrow and we would have no way to know, nobody in common, no obituaries

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Before I Go

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"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)

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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

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