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Bird by Bird (Anne Lamott)


We all know we're going to die. What's important is the kind of men and women we are in the face of this.
page: 51
tags: death



Ready Player One (Ernest Cline)


“What happens when you die? Well, we’re not completely sure. But the evidence seems to suggest that nothing happens. You’re just dead, your brain stops working, and then you’re not around to ask annoying questions anymore. Those stories you heard? About going to a wonderful place called ‘heaven’ where there is no more pain or death and you live forever in a state of perpetual happiness? Also total bullshit. Just like all that God stuff. There’s no evidence of a heaven and there never was. We made that up too. Wishful thinking. So now you have to live the rest of your life knowing you’re going to die someday and disappear forever. “Sorry.”
page: 16
tags: death



Reality is Broken (Jane McGonigal)


It is only when we shake free our fear of death that we can truly enjoy life.
page: 203
tags: death



When Breath Becomes Air (Paul Kalanithi)


What's better: an easy death or persist despite being unable to struggle?
page: 87
tags: death

The fact of death is unsettling. Yet there is no other way to live.
page: 132
tags: death living

Maybe, in the absence of any certainty, we should just assume that we're going to live a long time. Maybe that's the only way forward.
page: 162
tags: uncertainty death