Death would not surprise us as often as it does, if we let go of the misbelief that newborns are less mortal than the elderly.
My life will end someday, but it will end at my convenience.
(n.) A stone erected over a grave, to preserve the memory of the deceased.
He thought himself awake when he was already asleep. He saw the stars above his face, whirling on their silent and sleepless axis, and the leaves of the trees rustling against them, and he heard small...
I never understood why when you died, you didn't just vanish, everything should just keep going on the way it was only you just wouldn't be there. I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blan...
Then on your tombstone, where you only get a little bit of space to sum up your life, some wax-faced creep chisels a set of meaningless numbers instead of poetry or a secret love or the name of your f...
What is there flattering, amusing, or edifying in their carving your name on a tombstone, then time rubbing off the inscription together with the gilding?
Elizabeth Anne TaylorApril 25, 1974 - April 25, 2004Our Sweetheart, Only resting
Wyatt Earp had been born, and born again, and now there would be a third life, for the iron fist that had seized his soul in childhood had lost its grip at last. The long struggle for control was over...