Denial Of Death Quotes (6 quotes)

“An expensive coffin does not decrease the deceased’s chances of going to hell.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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“Attending a funeral would leave the average person insane, if they truly believed that sooner or later they are also going to die.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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“Death would be an extremely bad thing like most of us paint it, if being dead were painful.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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“Death is number one on the list of things that we wish were possible to leave behind when we escaped barbarism.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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“Watching someone die is never easy. I’ve been trying not to think about it. It’s crazy.”
― Jason Medina, The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel

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“We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death. That’s why we like all the things that we assume have no limits and, therefore, no end. It’s a way of escaping thoughts about death. We like lists because we don’t want to die.”
― Umberto Eco

tags: academic, death, denial-of-death, lists, organizing

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