When I did 'Bumble-ardy ' I was so intensely aware of death. Eugene my friend and partner was dying here in the house when I did 'Bumble-ardy'. I did 'Bumble-ardy' to save myself. I did not want to die with him. I wanted to live as any human being does.

Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity which has as its main image in the west at least a man dying in a devastating disgraceful helpless death.

There is no fundamental difference between the preparation for death and the practice of dying and spiritual practice leading to enlightenment.

Of emotions of love of breakup of love and hate and death and dying mama apple pie and the whole thing. It covers a lot of territory country music does.

The darkness of death is like the evening twilight it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.

If you have only one passion in life - football - and you pursue it to the exclusion of everything else it becomes very dangerous. When you stop doing this activity it is as though you are dying. The death of that activity is a death in itself.

If I die a violent death as some fear and a few are plotting I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins not in my dying.

It is not death it is dying that alarms me.

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.

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 with it much more effective.