Death

Talks

Quotes

Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live – Henry Van Dyke

Someone has said that judging by the past, there will be very few of us who get out of this world alive. – Sterling W. Sill

‘Tis better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all. – Alfred Lord Tennyson

We are born to die and we die to live. – Russell M. Nelson

Dr. Bernie Siegel:

Frequently when I’m in a hospital room with a “dying” patient, we are laughing.  Out in the hallway, the other staff members often think we are denying reality.  We must realize that people aren’t “living” or “dying,” they are either alive or dead.  As long as they are alive, we must treat them that way.  For this reason, I find the word “terminal” very upsetting.  It means we’ve begun to treat that person as though he or she were already dead, incapable of laughter and joy.

 – Love, Medicine and Miracles (Harper and Row)

Death of a loved one is an appropriate time for sorrow.  It is also a time for evaluation of our lives, a humbling time for pondering on priorities.  Has a death ever caused you to set new priorities in your life?  Funerals for me are like going to the temple.  I come home renewed to do better.

D&C 42:45 “Thou shalt live together in love insomuch that thou shalt weep for the loss of them that die.”

It’s okay to cry at a funeral.  Jesus wept at Lazarus’s tomb – even though he knew he was going to raise him from the dead.

Death is not the extinguishing of life – it is the putting out of the lamp because the dawn has come. – Rabindranath Tagore