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What we fear about death
What we fear about death
Lifesigns
Henri J.M. Nouwen questioning why anxiety and suffering is more easily expressed than joy.
Wholesome Fear
Lama Zopa Rinpoche and Kathleen McDonald with a meditation designed to help us make the last experience of life beneficial for others.
Let the one without sin be the first
Let the one without sin be the first
Three Poems and an Exercise
Three poems, a snippet from a novel, and an imaginative exercise all seek to open our hearts and minds to the reality of death.
Hidden Graces
Linda Pastan with a poem on being thankful for the accidental mercy of an answering machine.
Dawn Light
A tribute to the many forms of silence and a description of a Balinese day of it.
Thoughts without a Thinker
Mark Epstein with a teaching story on the mystery of death and impermanence.
Nearly Two People
By Olivia Baliey
Someday, everyone you love will die.
You probably stared at that sentence for a minute, didn’t you? What a way to begin an article. So morbid. So terrible and cruel.
Death Cafes
Statisticians put the number of people who die each year at 56 million. That comes out to 153, 000 deaths a day, 107 deaths per minute. Death speaks quite loudly to some of us, Erica Brown notes in …