Losing and dying: it's the same thing.
It's not the COUGH that carries you OFF. . . . It's the COFFIN they carry you OFF IN.
Most death now happens in hospitals. It's been medicalized. It happens away from where we deal with it directly. And that's a huge change. At the beginning of the 20th century most people died at home. Death was much more common.
One day the ordinariness will be terminally punctuated by the extraordinary full stop of death.
Death is too much to ask of the living.
Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.
The many men, so beautiful! And they all dead did lie: And a thousand thousand slimy things Lived on; and so did I.
