January 2012
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December 2011
2 posts
November 2011
17 posts
“From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them: this is eternity.”
– Edvard Munch (via kdhume)
“I’m so afraid of losing something I love, that I refuse to love anything”
– Jonathon Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (via loveyourchaos)
“I mean, they say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second...”
– Banksy (via saddest-summer)
“When you’re dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody...”
– J.D. Salinger (via venebelle)
October 2011
4 posts
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September 2011
3 posts
July 2011
10 posts
“The sadness will last forever.”
– Vincent van Gogh’s suicide note (via narcosis)
“As from a star I saw, coldly and soberly, the separateness of everything. I felt...”
– Sylvia Plath (via light-essence)
“I thought about all the things that everyone ever says to each other, and how...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (via aepocrypha)
June 2011
18 posts
What does death smell like? →
theossuary:
Check out Violence and Science. Great blog.
ellamorte:
There is a smell to humans that, believe it or not, lingers everywhere. Where you sit, where you stand, where you bathe, where you eat, where you sleep, there is an inherently human smell. The reason we never seem to notice it is because it is ever-present and until it is in its most extreme form, i.e. a decaying body, we...
“Body cells replace themselves every month. Even at this very moment. Most...”
– Haruki Murakami (via wonderfulambiguity)
NY-born twin friars die on same day at age 92 →
mywouldbeself:
“Identical twins Julian and Adrian Riester were born seconds apart 92 years ago. They died hours apart this week.”
“Both died of heart failure, said Father James Toal, guardian of St. Anthony Friary in St. Petersburg, where the inseparable twins lived since moving from western New York in…
Jack Kevorkian: Hero or murderer?
theweekmagazine:
Jack Kevorkian — the assisted-suicide advocate known as “Dr. Death” — died peacefully at a Michigan hospital on Friday, at age 83. Kevorkian admitted to helping more than 130 terminally ill people commit suicide between 1990 and 2000, using injections, carbon monoxide, and his notorious “suicide machine.” Should Kevorkian be remembered for killing people, or for helping...
“We talked death with burned-up intensity, both of us drawn to it like moths to...”
– Anne Sexton, on Sylvia Plath (via awritersruminations)