Aggregate Death
Five Questions and Answers about Cremation
This Q&A is from Reddit. It’s written by a former crematory assistant. Here’s the link to the original Q&A.
10 Inspiring Death Quotes
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“I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.”
– Mark Twain
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“From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.” – Edvard Munch
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“I find it delightful that the optimal way I can live my life from moment-to-moment is also the optimal way I can prepare for my death, and equally delightful that acknowledging our future death is a prerequisite for living a truly joyful life now.” Ram Dass, Still Here
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“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.” – Mark Twain
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“Death is always close by. It is almost like your shadow. You may be aware, you may not be aware, but it follows you from the first moment of your life to the very last moment. Death is a process just as life is a process, and they are almost together, like two wheels of a bullock cart. Life cannot exist without death; neither can death exist without life.” : Osho Rajnish
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The flowers bloom, then wither …
the stars shine and one day become extinct …
This earth, the sun, the galaxies and even the big universe
someday will be destroyed …
Compared with that,the human life is only a blink,
just a little time …
In that short time, the people are born, laugh, cry, fight,
are injured, feel joy, sadness, hate someone, love someone.
All in just a moment.
And then, are embraced by the eternal sleep called death.
– Virgo Shaka (Saint Seya)
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“Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.” – Ernest Hemingway
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“It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come”- Shakespeare in Julius Caesar
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Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.
Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure — these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.”
“No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there.
And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.” — Steve Jobs
Ten Cancer Scars
Cancer will scar you in one way or another. It may scar your body. Or it can scar your soul. Roughly one out of four people die from cancer. And roughly 50% will fight or develop some form of cancer in their lifetime.
For many, fighting cancer becomes a battle … a battle that changes us. Fighting cancer can make you gain new perspective and find a better appreciation of life, but it also damages and kills. It can provide both a beautiful perspective and horrible fear and pain.
I’ve often thought that the visual damage that cancer causes provides an accurate physical depiction of what cancer can do to our psyches. It can distort us, it removes pieces of our life, it can render us feeling less than whole. And the cuts are hardly ever neat and clean. Cancer is feisty, unruly and unempathetic. Cancer is an enemy of health.
This is what cancer looks like:
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From IMGUR: “Done in February to remove my pelvic lymph nodes and appendix to run further tests on to see if the cancer had spread. You can see the incision runs about an inch short of the previous incision. This time I had 29 staples, instead of 37.”
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From IMGUR: “Today, I am officially 10 years cancer free! Here is a before and after photo to show how far I’ve come. Kicking cancer’s ass 10 years and counting!”
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Via Mirror UK: The scars on Andre’s head after he underwent surgery for a brain tumor. A tumor that would eventually take his life.
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This incredible story and photo and comes from Huffington Post.
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From Deviant Art : “This was from a bone transplant that removed a cancerous bone tumor over two years ago, another year of chemotherapy and radiation followed. I’ve been in remission since Christmas 2010. I felt like a Warrior since. 
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This is from the photo documentary by Renée C. Byer called, “A Mother’s Journey”. A Mother’s Journey” was a series of photos, over the course of a year, about a boy at the age of 10 who was battling cancer.
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Scars from mouth cancer.
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From IMGUR: Most people hide them, but I love my scar because it means that I fought cancer and WON.
