| 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
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 (1792)
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're dead.
- Tennessee Williams
Don't mean to dwell on this dying thing.
- Dave Matthews
REFERENCES
Death
and Dying
Day
of the Dead in Mexico
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