"The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death."

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"The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death."

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"Do not forever with thy vailed lidsSeek for thy noble father in the dust.Thou know'st 'tis common; all that lives must die,Passing though nature to eternity."

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"Funerals, I had decided, are for the living."

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"No one dies in the language of the Gnani (the Self-realized one) and every one dies in the language of the agnani (non-Self-realized person). The agnani (non-Self-realized person) mourns and grieves, and the Gnani simply 'Sees'."

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"People don't like to talk about death because it makes them sad."

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"We care about the dead. We try with our lives to honor theirs. That's how we make our lives meaningful, and how we make their lives meaningful, too."

John Green, American Author

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"Maybe death is the great equalizer, the one big thing that can finally make strangers shed a tear for one another."

Mitch Albom, American Writer

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"Who said death is dead? He's fully alive, traveling around the world, throwing shadows and soaking in the sun. Visiting the young and old; placing bets and dicing regrets, for the worse or a better off place."

Anthony Liccione, American Author

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"Oh, that this too, too sullied flesh would melt, Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew, Or that the Everlasting had not fixed. His canon 'gainst self-slaughter!"

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