When you die, your culture takes you in, and then, if you've given enough, your place is near the centre.
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In World War II, some Japanese soldiers preferred to take their own lives rather become prisoners of war. In Saipan hundreds of civilians jumped to their deaths over cliffs in order to avoid falling into American hands. Even in life-or-death situations cultural ties and duties often outweigh the instinct for survival. This is why people die in the attempt to rescue a dog from drowning, or decide to become suicide bombers.
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When Great Trees FallWhen great trees fall, rocks on distant hills shudder, lions hunker downin tall grasses, and even elephantslumber after safety. When great trees fallin forests, small things recoil into silence, their senseseroded beyond fear. When great souls die, the air around us becomeslight, rare, sterile. We breathe, briefly. Our eyes, briefly, see witha hurtful clarity. Our memory, suddenly sharpened, examines, gnaws on kind wordsunsaid, promised walksnever taken. Great souls die andour reality, bound tothem, takes leave of us. Our souls, dependent upon theirnurture, now shrink, wizened. Our minds, formedand informed by theirradiance, fall away. We are not so much maddenedas reduced to the unutterable ignoranceof dark, coldcaves. And when great souls die, after a period peace blooms, slowly and alwaysirregularly. Spaces fillwith a kind ofsoothing electric vibration. Our senses, restored, neverto be the same, whisper to us. They existed. They existed. We can be. Be and bebetter. For they existed.
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The absence of the will to live is, alas, not sufficient to make one want to die.
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People leave strange little memories of themselves behind when they die.
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Number one on my list of things to do before I die is become immortal. Obviously there is no number two on my list.?
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There were worse things than dying, and those worse things happened to the people you left behind.
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It isn't dying I'm afraid of, it isn't that at all; I know what it is to die, I've died already. It is the endless obliteration, the knowledge that there will never be anything else. That's what I can't stand, to try so hard and to end in nothing. You know what I mean, don't you?.. I really loved to write.
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Though you may hear me holler, And you may see me cry--I'll be dogged, sweet baby, If you gonna see me die.
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It's all God's will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.
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Darkling I listen; and, for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Call'd him soft names in many a musèd rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath; Now more than ever seems it rich to die, To cease upon the midnight with no pain, While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad In such an ecstasy!
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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.
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You have made flowers grow where I cultivated dust and stones. Remember this, on this journey you insist on making. If you die, I will not survive you long.
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If they killed him tonight, at least he would die alive.
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For some reason, dying men always ask the question they know the answer to. Perhaps it's so they can die being right.
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I'm going to die whatever you do, but I'm not afraid.
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Some men die for lack of love.. Some men die because of it.
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Two turtle doves will show theeWhere my cold ashes lieAnd sadly murmuring tell theeHow in tears I did die
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Can you do it? When the time comes? When the time comes there will be no time. Now is the time. Curse God and die.
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***HERE IS A SMALL FACT*** You are going to die.
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Would it hurt to die? All those times he had thought it was about to happen and escaped, he had never really thought of the thing itself: his will to live had always been so much stronger than his fear of death.
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Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.
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It is difficult to get the news from poems, yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there.
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When I die, don't come, I wouldn't want a leafto turn away from the sun -- it loves it there. There's nothing so spiritual about being happybut you can't miss a day of it, because it doesn't last.
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When I heard your organization was recording testimonies, I knew I had to come. She died in my arms, saying 'I don't want to die.' That is what death is like. It doesn't matter what uniforms the soldiers are wearing. It doesn't matter how good the weapons are. I thought if everyone could see what I saw, we would never have war anymore.
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