Tag: Death
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Are You Ever Ready?
It seems apropos that I read an article by Sasha Sagan on her father, Carl Sagan, the day before learning of the death of someone close to me and my boyfriend. I think, in part, we knew that her time was coming to an end. We both know time is not a fixed object, aging…
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Death and carrying on
Birth and death is the natural course of a human life yet while the West rejoice in birth and mourn death, the few funerals I attended as naive child felt more like a celebration. I was shielded by my parents from death as they’ve encountered too closely the meaning of death. It wasn’t until a…