John Candy knew he was going to die. He told me on his 40th birthday. He said, well, Maureen, I'm on borrowed time.
Maureen O'Hara
A death from a long illness is very different from a sudden death. It gives you time to say goodbye and time to adjust to the idea that the beloved... →
Meghan O'Rourke
Loss doesn't feel redeemable. But for me one consoling aspect is the recognition that, in this at least, none of us is different from anyone... →
One word I had throughout the first year and a half of my mother's death was 'unmoored.' I felt that I had no anchor, that I had no home... →
And after my mother's death I became more open to and empathetic about other people's struggles and losses.
My mother died of metastatic colorectal cancer shortly before three P.M. on Christmas Day of 2008. I don't know the exact time of her death... →
In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office.... →
P. J. O'Rourke
Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him... →
I blame feminism and Facebook for the death of the American automobile. I'm a Republican, so I blame everything on feminism - or commies.
Death is so important that God visited death upon his own son, thereby helping us learn right from wrong well enough that we may escape death forever... →