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There are three deaths. The first is when the body ceases to function. The second is when the body is consigned to the grave. The third is that moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time.
David Eagleman • Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives
Mortality
Prashanth Narayan and • 3 cards
We are like butterflies who flutter for a day
and think it is forever.
(Carl Sagan)
When I interviewed Andrea Gibson last year, they shared a line that they loved from a poem by Saul Williams: “only believers in death will die.” When I asked what they took that line to mean, Andrea said: “I don't think that what's real can die. I don't think consciousness can die. And I don't believe love can die. I don't know if there's anything... See more
"When death finds you, may it find you alive."
-African proverb
-African proverb
twitter.com • Geneia@home @home
Every human death feels unnatural. Even the peaceful passing of elderly relatives who’ve lived rich lives and completed the full circuit of experiences we all feel entitled to—work, marriage, children, vacations, holidays—are attended by a grief so massive that it slips our processes of rational cognition. It hits us obliquely, and never... See more