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How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?.
How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?.
A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own.
A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own.
 Because I could not stop for death
He kindly stopped for me
The carriage held but just ourselves
And immortaility.  
 Because I could not stop for death
He kindly stopped for me
The carriage held but just ourselves
And immortaility. 
One might say, for example, that a patient has a kind of St Vitus's dance; a kind of dropsy; a read more
One might say, for example, that a patient has a kind of St Vitus's dance; a kind of dropsy; a kind of nerve fever; a kind of ague. One would never say, however (to end once and for all the confusion of these names) "He has St. Vitus's dance," "He has nerve fever," "He has dropsy," "He has ague," since there simply are not any fixed, unchanging diseases to be known by such names.
To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!.
To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!.
The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26].
The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26].
If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when everything in which he had trusted read more
If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when everything in which he had trusted should betray his trust, and, in short, of coming eventually to hopeless misery. He would break down, at last, as every good fortune, as every dynasty, as every civilization does. In place of this we have death.
 For death begins with life's first breath
And life begins at touch of death.  
 For death begins with life's first breath
And life begins at touch of death. 
Where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live.
Where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live.