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“My ethic is: ‘Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die.’ You can be as careful as you want, but you’re going to die anyway, so why not have fun?”
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“People don’t become better when they’re dead; you just talk about them as if they are.”
― White Line Fever: The Autobiography
― White Line Fever: The Autobiography
“Though you may have never attended a funeral, two of the world's humans die every second. Eight in the time it took you to read that sentence. Now we're at fourteen. If this is too abstract, consider this number: 2.5 million. The 2.5 million people who die in the United States every year.”
― Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory
― Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory
“If there is a God he hasn’t been paying attention. He should retire and hand over to a younger man, because he’s making a real bollocks of everything.”
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“Exposing a young child to the realities of love and death is far less dangerous than exposing them to the lie of the happy ending.”
― Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory
― Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory
The Gothic Poets Society
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Wits, Words & Spirits! Who Are We? We are a group of like minded individuals who haunt dark halls and cemeteries, armed with pens, books and black li ...more
Death, Dying and the End of Life
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This group is for all those who want to further our cultural conversation about death, dying and the end of life. It is a venue for learning and shari ...more
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