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Death and dying

«The death of a child is the single most traumatic event in medicine. To lose a child is to lose a piece of yourself.»
«They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.»
«The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined.»
«The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.»
«The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.»
«The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.»
«The certain prospect of death could sweeten every life with a precious and fragrant drop of levity - and now you strange apothecary souls have turned it into an ill-tasting drop of poison that makes the whole of life repulsive»
«The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death.»
Author: Jim Morrison (Poet, Singer) | About: Cinema, Death and dying, Fear | Keywords: appeal, cinema
«The dead being the majority, it is natural that we should have more friends among them than among the living.»
Author: Samuel Butler | About: Death and dying | Keywords: Among the Living
«The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.»