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He lived then before me, he lived as much as he had ever lived---a shadow insatiable of splendid app...

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I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.

I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.

A funeral is no place for secrets.

My funeral," the Blue Man said. "Look at the mourners. Some did not even know me well, yet they came...

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Mitch AlbomThe Five People You Meet in Heaven

After the funeral, my life changed. I felt as if time were suddenly precious, water going down an op...

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And on a cold Sunday afternoon, he was joined in his home by a small group of friends and family for...

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My solo album is dead and buried. We had the funeral. It was sad and I cried a lot but it made such ...

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Royal summoned mourners. They came from the village, from the neighboring hills and, wailing like do...

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Zhuangzi's wife died. When Huizu went to convey his condolences, he found Zhuangzi sitting with his ...

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ZhuangziThe Complete Works of Chuang Tzu

The only thing I can recall is that it rained all day and all night, and that when I asked my father...

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Lastly he looked at the face so caved and drawn among the folds of funeral cloth, the yellowed moust...

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Not that there seems to be any appropriate place to bury someone, but these municipal cemeteries, or...

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Dave EggersA Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

I felt a Funeral, in my Brain,And Mourners to and froKept treading – treading – till it seemedThat S...

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Emily DickinsonThe Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

For 3 million you could give everyone in Scotland a shovel, and we could dig a hole so deep we could...

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A Parting GuestWhat delightful hosts are they—Life and Love!Lingeringly I turn away,This late hour, ...

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I wish to declare with all earnestness that I do not want any religious ceremonies performed for me ...

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Still, somewhere in the depths of ourselves we all harbor an ashamed, unsatisfied melancholy that qu...

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Grief turns out to be a place none of us know until we reach it...We might expect that we will be pr...

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How could you go about choosing something that would hold the half of your heart you had to bury?

Graham Chapman, co-author of the "Parrot Sketch", is no more. He has ceased to be. Bereft of life, h...

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I'm telling you, Augustus Waters talked so much that he'd interrupt you at his own funeral.

I could not escape a feeling that this was my own funeral, and you do not cry in that case.