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Everything Is Going to Kill Everybody: The Terrifyingly Real Ways the World Wants You Dead by Robert Brockway
mobi, epub, azw3 | | 2010-09-15 | Author:Robert Brockway

The Best Wish to Make upon a Falling Star “I wish that was not a meteor about to kill everybody I love.” If that asteroid does enter Earth’s atmosphere, a ...
( Category: Disaster Relief March 25,2014 )
Be Not Afraid: Overcoming the Fear of Death by Johann Christoph Arnold
mobi |eng | 2003-08-11 | Author:Johann Christoph Arnold

Chapter 12 Suffering Whenever I think of suffering, Miriam comes to mind. Born with multiple physical handicaps, including the inability to swallow, she had to be fed by dropper for ...
( Category: Death March 25,2014 )
How We Die by Sherwin B Nuland
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-11-11 | Author:Sherwin B Nuland

In that long-ago day when laboratory science was barely beginning its long partnership with bedside medicine, Livingstone’s explanation for his remarkable calm was one with which most people probably agreed. ...
( Category: Grief & Bereavement March 25,2014 )
The American Way of Death Revisited by Jessica Mitford
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-11-23 | Author:Jessica Mitford

The scene now shifts to Washington. Brigadier General Godfrey McHugh told Robert Kennedy that the solid bronze casket had been badly damaged in transit: “It’s really shabby. One handle is ...
( Category: Death March 25,2014 )
Mortality by Christopher Hitchens
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-09-01 | Author:Christopher Hitchens

When you fall ill, people send you CDs. Very often, in my experience, these are by Leonard Cohen. So I have recently learned a song, entitled “If It Be Your ...
( Category: Oncology March 25,2014 )
Making Toast by Roger Rosenblatt
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-09-15 | Author:Roger Rosenblatt

In Bethesda, Ginny writes a poem called “Arch of Shade”— Rachmaninoff and Mozart Sift through the haze On River Road. Two hatted women wait In the heat for the Ride-on-bus. ...
( Category: Death March 25,2014 )
Nothing to Be Frightened Of by Julian Barnes
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2008-01-02 | Author:Julian Barnes

Chapter 37 On my sixtieth birthday, I have lunch with T., one of my few religious friends. Or do I just mean faith-professing? Anyway, he is Catholic, wears a cross ...
( Category: Death March 25,2014 )
Empires of the Dead by David Crane
epub |eng | 2013-07-04 | Author:David Crane [David Crane]

EIGHT The Task In all the arguments over principles it is easy to lose sight of the sheer scale of the physical task that the Imperial War Graves Commission had ...
( Category: Death March 25,2014 )
The Undertaking by Thomas Lynch
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Thomas Lynch

That is how she turned it into prayer—the “irregularity,” the cancer, the tumor that moved from her remaining lung up her esophagus, leapt to her spinal cord, and then made ...
( Category: Death March 25,2014 )
Understanding Grief by Alan Bester
epub, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Alan Bester [Bester, Alan]

Jesus is the resurrection and the life Fifth, Jesus says, "I am the resurrection and the life."6 As much as your grief is real so is the certainly of an ...
( Category: Death March 24,2014 )

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