There is nothing more sobering than a great deal of time spent in a hospital with the critically ill. Nothing more rewarding either.
Tag: Death
Tetelestai
It is finished – yes I think I know just what the poor fellow meant.
Dead Susan: Requiescat in Pace
The Good Aunt
Crossing the Bar – Alfred Lord Tennyson
Sunset and evening star,
And one clear call for me!
And may there be no moaning of the bar,
When I put out to sea,
On Age
Cleopatra was fortunate indeed, the rest of us may age less well. But we should embrace age, not resent or fear it.
Carpe Diem
There is nothing quite like a funeral to concentrate the mind; “carpe diem” seems such an apt phrase at such a time.
Euthanasia
Every human should have the right to take his or her own life and the means to do so painlessly and swiftly should be made easily and openly available.
To Regret or to Reset
Regret, while you still have breath, is a wasteful extravagance, a futile and destructive luxury.
A Meditation on Death
To have lived a good life is all that matters in the end.
Sibling Bitterness
Why is it that siblings often fall out in such a bitter fashion on the death of parents? Is it a petty dispute over the will? Or is it something deeper?
Weltanschauung 