| What are you going to so that you
can arrive on your deathbed 50 years from now with a big grin
on your face that says 'lord sakes that was a ripper. that was
a good life well lived.' For me that means engaging meaningfully
with what I think I am here on the planet to do.
- Petrea King,
Bush
Telegraph
What appears to you as a setting is for me a rising. What appears
to you as a prison is for my soul an endless garden.
- Rumi
They've had a good innings. (He had a good life.)
- Popular expression in Australia
You wasted life, why wouldn't you waste the afterlife?
- Modest Mouse, ocean breathes salty
It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine.
- R.E.M.
Haven't seen you in quite a while. I was down the hold, just
passing time. Last time we met was a low-lit room. We were as
close together as bride and groom. We ate the food, we drank
the wine. Everybody having a good time. Except you ... You were
talking about the end of the world
- U2
We run after values that, at death, become zero. At the end
of your life, nobody asks you how many degrees you have, or
how many mansions you built, or how many Rolls Royces you could
afford. That's what dying patients teach you.
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to
live forever.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Don't dig your grave with your own knife and fork.
- Proverb
Society is indeed a contract . . . between those who are living,
those who are dead, and those who are to be born.
- Edmund Burke
There is no life without death.
- Proverb
Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when
it comes, you'll know you are dead.
- Tennessee Williams
A colleague of mine described Día de los Muertos as
'the only time during the year when the veil that separates
our world from the next is lifted.'
- Joshua Berman, Día
de los Muertos: What I’ve learned about Day of the Dead
(so far)
Don't mean to dwell on this dying thing.
- Dave Matthews
Se petatio. S/he died.
- Mexico expression
REFERENCES
Death
and Dying
Day
of the Dead in Mexico
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and dying
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Dead
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