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Lots of my dying patients say they grow in bounds and leaps, and finish all the unfinished business. But assisting a suicide is cheating them of these lessons, like taking a student out of school before final exams. That's not love, it's projecting your own unfinished business
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Suicide, Cheating, School

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Consciously or not, we are all on a quest for answers, trying to learn the lessons of life. We grapple with fear and guilt. We search for meaning, love, and power. We try to understand fear, loss, and time. We seek to discover who we are and how we can become truly happy.
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Life Lesson, Loss, Guilt

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, David Kessler (2012). “Life Lessons: How Our Mortality Can Teach Us About Life And Living”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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Dying is an integral part of life, as natural and predictable as being born. But whereas birth is cause for celebration, death has become a dreaded and unspeakable issue to be avoided by every means possible in our modern society. Perhaps it is that.
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Mean, Issues, Dying

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Throughout life, we get clues that remind us of the direction we are supposed to be headed if you stay focused, then you learn your lessons.
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Death, Lessons, Clue

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We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives.
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Children, Greatest Fear, Role Models

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I always say that death can be one of the greatest experiences ever. If you live each day of your life right, then you have nothing to fear.
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Death, Each Day, Ifs

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I'm going to dance in all the galaxies.
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Afterlife, Galaxy

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People after death become complete again. The blind can see, the deaf can hear, cripples are no longer crippled after all their vital signs have ceased to exist.
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People, Vital Signs, Blind

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I didn't fully realize it at the time, but the goal of my life was profoundly molded by this experience - to help produce, in the next generation, more Mother Teresas and less Hitlers.
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Mother, Goal, Generations

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God, how I have wasted my life.
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I look for mystery and try to decipher it while knowing it is an impossible task. I look for memory, where Mystery lies.
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Memories, Lying, Knowing

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Grief will happen either as an open healing wound or a closed festering wound, either honestly or dishonestly, either appropriately or inappropriately. But emotions will be expressed.
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Grief, Healing, Emotion

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Dying is nothing to fear. It can be the most wonderful experience of your life. It all depends on how you've lived.
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Inspiration, Losing A Loved One, Dying

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Those who learned to know death, rather than to fear and fight it, become our teachers about life.
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Death, Teacher, Inspiration

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There is not much sense in suffering, since drugs can be given for pain, itching, and other discomforts. The belief has long died that suffering here on earth will be rewarded in heaven. Suffering has lost its meaning.
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Death, Pain, Long

"On Death and Dying". Book by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross. Chapter 2, 1969.

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I am an artist because the knot is so powerful I just can not, nor want to be, anything else or do anything else.
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Powerful, Artist, Want

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How do the geese know when to fly to the sun?
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Sun, Just Move On, Geese

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Our only purpose in life is growth.
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Growth, Purpose, Life Is

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Old age is not synonymous with being 'glad to die.
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Age, Glad, Dies

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When I die I'm going to dance first in all the galaxies...I'm gonna play and dance and sing.
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Love, Death, Dream

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Is war perhaps nothing else but a need to face death, to conquer and master it, to come out of it alive -- a peculiar form of denial of our mortality?
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War, Peculiar, Needs

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Free choice is the greatest gift God gives to his children.
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Children, Freedom, Giving

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Even though I had a good income from my lectures, no one would give me a loan. The insanity almost drove me to sympathize with the feminist movement.
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Giving, Feminist, Insanity

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Death is the great transition.
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Death, Transition

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The only incontrovertible fact of my work is the importance of life.
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Life, Facts, Importance

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Born: July 8, 1926
Died: August 24, 2004
Occupation: Psychiatrist
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