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Like many people, I feel like celebrating. Remember this feeling. It is human, and can help us understand when others express bloodlust.

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He was a dying man looking down on the surgeons trying to save him.

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Tobin," Mom said disapprovingly. She wasn't a particularly funny person. It suited her professionally - I mean, you don't want your cancer surgeon to ...more

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I was caught in a love triangle with one dead side.

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Right, well, he'd been sick for a while and his nurse said to him, 'You seem to be feeling better this morning,' and Isben looked at her and said, 'On...more

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People, I thought, wanted security. They couldn't bear the though of their loved ones not existing, and couldn't even imagine themselves not existing....more

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But ultimately I do not believe that she was only matter. The rest of her must be recycled, too. I believe now that we are greater than the sum of our...more

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There comes a time when we realize that our parents cannot save themselves or save us, that everyone who wades through time eventually gets dragged ou...more

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I felt the unfairness of it, the inarguable injustice of loving someone who might have loved you back but can't due to deadness.

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There comes a time when we realize that our parents cannot save themselves or save us, that everyone who wades through time eventually gets dragged ou...more

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I found myself thinking about President William McKinley, the third American president to be assassinated. He lived for several days after he was shot...more

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She cannot possibly be dead, people do not just die

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Oh God, Alaska, I love you. I love you," and the Colonel whispered, "I'm so sorry, Pudge. I know you did," and I said, "No. Not past tense." She wasn'...more

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Last words are always harder to remember when no one knows that someone's about to die.

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Because everybody who has ever lost their way in life has felt the nagging insistence of that question. At some point we all look up and realize we ar...more