Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.
I always wondered what hearing one's own obituary might sound like, and I sort of feel like I may have just heard part of it at least.
Whoever we are, we have to carve something out of our lives. I would like to be on my deathbed going, 'I've enjoyed that. I went through the rollercoaster of it, but I've appreciated it.'
There is no fundamental difference between the preparation for death and the practice of dying, and spiritual practice leading to enlightenment.
I've always got my eye on my deathbed.
This is a story about a man named Eddie and it begins at the end, with Eddie dying in the sun.
Now I've laid me down to die I pray my neighbors not to pry Too deeply into sins that I Not only cannot here deny But much enjoyed as life flew by.
Dying before dying has two important consequences: It liberates the individual from the fear of death and influences the actual experience of dying at the time of biological demise.