Quotes about "Death & Mortality"

Judaism is my home. Judaism is super important to me, in death and in life. ”

I don't think death is a negative thing at all. I think it can be very positive. ”

There's something about death. It's like trying to understand our own mortality and immortality. That's why society is so into things like vampires, because they don't die. Well, why don't they die? ”

Society has a fascination with death. ”

Death belongs to the dying and those who love them. ”

Death with dignity' is our society's expression of the universal yearning to achieve a graceful triumph over the stark and often repugnant finality of life's last sputterings. But the fact is, death is not a confrontation. It is simply an event in the sequence of nature's ongoing rhythms. ”

Only by a frank discussion of the very details of dying can we best deal with those aspects that frighten us the most. It is by knowing the truth... that we rid ourselves of that fear of the terra incognita of death. ”

Not death but disease is the real enemy; disease, the malign force that requires confrontation. Death is the surcease that comes when the exhausting battle has been lost. ”

Death is the one predator we can't escape. But vampires have found the loophole so many of us crave. I think that's the allure of vampirism. ”

When Katrina struck in 2005, roughly 300 deaths were recorded at hospitals, long-term care facilities and in nursing homes, according to a recently published study of death certificates and disaster mortuary team records. Many of them might have been saved if they had been evacuated sooner. ”