End Of Life Is Inevitable, But There Are Lots Of Ways To Look At It

My friend's son died last week. He was only 43 and his death was unexpected and a dreadful shock. My friend is a woman with strong faith and she has firm beliefs regarding the spiritual aspects of death. Our conversations after her son's death and my thinking  and reading this week were more about  how we think about the end of life, both that of a loved one and our own. Talking about the end of a life is not fun or popular, but it is inevitably talked and written about, even sometimes with humor.

Life does not cease to be funny when people die

any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

 George Bernard Shaw

Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone,

his own burden, his own way.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Health nuts are going to feel silly someday,

lying in  hospitals dying of nothing

Redd Foxx

A man's dying is more the survivors affair than his own.

Thomas Mann

They say such nice things about people at their funerals

that it makes me  sad to realize that

I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.

Garrison Keillor

.....grief makes an hour ten.

William Shakespeare

Everyone wants to go to heaven but nobody wants to die.

Joe Lewis

We all have to die someday if we live long enough.

Dave Farber

And for bloggers

If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live,

 I wouldn't brood. I'd type faster.

Isaac Asimov