“How can we call death-about which we know nothing- the opposite of life, when we barely comprehend life itself?”

“We are left with nothing but death, the irreducible fact of our own mortality. Death after a long illness we can accept with resignation. Even accidental death we can ascribe to fate. But for a man to die of no apparent cause, for a man to die simply because he is a man, brings us so close to the invisible boundary between life and death that we no longer know which side we are on. Life becomes death, and it is as if this death has owned this life all along. Death without warning. Which is to say: life stops. And it can stop at any moment.”

“Death is not a curse to be outwitted no matter the cost. Death is the natural pivot on which life turns, without which life as we know it could not be. A pro-life-support position is not always a pro-life position. When we can no longer hold on with purpose, to let go is to die with dignity and grace.”

“Death in itself is nothing; but we fear.To be we know not what, we know not where.”

“What happened when we died? How were we to know that death wasn't as profound an adventure as life was?”

“-and at the same time how deserving of life we can be, when we can honor this beauty that owes us nothing.”