{"quotes":[{"text":"Lacking natural equilibrium, I used writing as an illustrative means to center myself in a world filled with haziness and uncertainty. My self-drafted obituary will not bemoan death but shall celebrate life by giving heartfelt thanks for all the people that brightened actuality with their kindness, friendship, noble acts of charity, and expressions of universal goodwill. It was a privilege to exist in this wrinkle of time with many people devoted to burnishing the sharpen edges of life. The heavens blessed me with many years to discover why it is beautiful to live and die in a world where the hills and wind, the rivers and seas, stars and moon, and revealing sunlight shall persevere.","author":"Kilroy J. Oldster","tags":["beautiful-life","beauty-of-life","beauty-of-nature","beauty-of-the-world","death","death-and-dying","essay-writing","essayist","memories","memories","memory","writers","writers-on-writing","writers","writing","writing-philosophy"],"id":281,"author_id":"Kilroy+J.+Oldster"},{"text":"There are things far worse than death, for when it comes to us it is final. What lies beyond it is a matter of faith in what we had hope for.","author":"R. Alan Woods","tags":["death","death-and-dying","death-of-a-loved-one","r-alan-woods"],"id":655,"author_id":"R.+Alan+Woods"},{"text":"Death is a bored clerk, with too many orders to fill. There is no reckoning. No profound moment. It creeps up on us from behind, and snatches us away while we shit.","author":"Joe Abercrombie","tags":["death","death-and-dying"],"id":1186,"author_id":"Joe+Abercrombie"},{"text":"All the same I fear what happens when we expand the terrain of medical practice to include actively assisting people with speeding their death. I am less worried about the abuse of these powers than I am about dependence on them.","author":"Atul Gawande","tags":["death-and-dying"],"id":1956,"author_id":"Atul+Gawande"},{"text":"Death. It is a strange stalker, one that we spend our whole lives running from, some more successful than others.","author":"Alessandra Torre","tags":["death","death-and-dying","dying","stalking","suspense"],"id":3136,"author_id":"Alessandra+Torre"},{"text":"Dying has a funny way of making you see people, the living and the dead, a little differently. Maybe that's just part of the grieving, or maybe the dead stand there and open our eyes a bit wider.","author":"Susan Gregg Gilmore","tags":["death-and-dying"],"id":3180,"author_id":"Susan+Gregg+Gilmore"},{"text":"Jason smiled. The sound of wings was louder now, the fluttering of angels come to carry him home.","author":"Robert Ferrigno","tags":["alternate-history","civil-war","death-and-dying","war"],"id":3375,"author_id":"Robert+Ferrigno"},{"text":"If something's worth getting upset about, then there must be something worth getting happy about. And if something's worth getting happy about, then there must be something that matters. But there isnt!.. In a few years you'll all be dead and forgotten and diddly-squat, nothing, so you might just as well start getting used to it!","author":"Janne Teller","tags":["death-and-dying"],"id":5944,"author_id":"Janne+Teller"},{"text":"And then the sword came down like a flash of lightning, and then her head was off her body and the long rivalry between me and the other Boleyn girl was over.","author":"Philippa Gregory","tags":["death-and-dying"],"id":6580,"author_id":"Philippa+Gregory"},{"text":"Upon learning that her cancer had spread to her spine, Paula prepared her thirteen year-old son for her death by writing him a letter of farewell that moved me to years. In her final paragraph she reminded him that the lungs in the human fetus do not breathe, nor do it's eyes see. Thus, the embryo is being prepared for an existence it cannot yet imagine.","author":"Irvin D. Yalom","tags":["death-and-dying","life","psychology"],"id":6739,"author_id":"Irvin+D.+Yalom"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":747,"pages":75,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}