You return our bodies to the dust
and snuff out our lives like a candleflame.
You hurry us away; we vanish
as suddenly as the grass:
in the morning it shoots up and flourishes,
in the evening it wilts and dies.
For our life dissolves like a vision
and fades into air like a cloud.
Stephen Mitchell
Norman Cousins
“Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.” Norman Cousins
Giovanni Falcone
“He who doesn’t fear death only dies once.” Giovanni Falcone
The Dying Process
The Dying Process
From an Experiencer’s Perspective
by Juliet Nightingale
What happens to us when we die? This is a compelling question that plagues everyone throughout ones life. I have been on multiple deathbeds and have actually died a few times—having flatlined and lost all vital signs—commonly knows as a near-death experience (NDE).
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Michel Onfray
“A fiction does not die, an illusion never passes away, a fairy tale does not refute itself .. You cannot kill a breeze, a wind, a fragrance; you cannot kill a dream or an ambition. God, manufactured by mortals in their own quintessential image, exists only to make daily life bearable despite the path that every one of us treads towards extinction .. We cannot assassinate or kill an illusion. In fact illusion is more likely to kill us – for God puts to death everything that stands up to him, beginning with reason, intelligence and the critical mind. All the rest follows in a chain reaction.” Michel Onfray
Death Awareness
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“The fear of death comes from limited awareness.” Deepak Chopra