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Facing our own death can be an experience either of fear, helplessness, and pain or of acceptance, gratitude, and continuing engagement with loved ones and valued activities. Models have been crafted about stages of facing one’s death that suggest we initially cannot accept it but that our anger, our efforts at bargaining, our sadness all still take us to eventual recognition and acceptance. Whether or not we feel our own death is imminent, there is much great wisdom that shares the thought that facing—and accepting—our own mortality is essential to living a full, vibrant, and meaningful life in the moment we are alive, here and now.

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FindCenterOne day each of us will run out of tomorrows. Let us not put off what is important.

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Thomas S. Monson
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FindCenterWe die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.

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Toni Morrison
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FindCenterThe physical body is acknowledged as dust, the personal drama as delusion. It is as if the world we perceive through our senses, that whole gorgeous and terrible pageant, were the breath-thin surface of a bubble, and everything else, inside and outside, is pure radiance.

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Stephen Mitchell
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FindCenterThe most common descriptions I have found of the moment when death occurs is that there is a feeling of coldness and then suddenly the spirit is standing by the side of the bed (or wherever) looking at their body.

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Dolores Cannon
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FindCenterOnly to the extent that man exposes himself over and over again to annihilation, can that which is indestructible arise within him. In this lies the dignity of daring.

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Karlfried Graf Dürckheim
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FindCenterWake up! If you knew for certain you had a terminal illness—if you had little time left to live—you would waste precious little of it! Well, I’m telling you . . . you do have a terminal illness: It’s called birth. You don’t have more than a few years left.

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Dan Millman
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FindCenterI liked those ladies! They were helpers, and they danced.’ These are the words I want on my gravestone: that I was a helper, and that I danced.

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Anne Lamott
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FindCenterWe all know we’re going to die; what’s important is the kind of men and women we are in the face of this.

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Anne Lamott
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FindCenterAs long as you have not grasped that you have to die to grow, you are a troubled guest on the dark earth.

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Mircea Eliade
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FindCenterDo not act as if you had ten thousand years to throw away. Death stands at your elbow. Be good for something while you live and it is in your power.

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Marcus Aurelius
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