A quotation from Dante

     “Why linger here, my soul?
The torments you will have to suffer here
Upon this earth which even now you hate,
Weigh heavily upon my fearful mind.”
Then calling upon death,
As I would call on lovely, soothing peace,
I say: “Come to me,” with such yearning love
That I am jealous of whoever dies.
 
     [«Anima mia, ché non ten vai?
ché li tormenti che tu porterai
nel secol, che t’è già tanto noioso,
mi fan pensoso di paura forte».
Ond’io chiamo la Morte,
come soave e dolce mio riposo;
e dico «Vieni a me» con tanto amore,
che sono astioso di chiunque more.]

Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) Italian poet
La Vita Nuova [Vita Nova; New Life], ch. 33 (c. 1294, pub. 1576) [tr. Musa (1971)]

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A quotation from Walter M. Miller, Jr.

To mourn is to pity oneself. The dead feel nothing. The mourner does not pity the dead. He pities himself for having lost the living.

Walter M. Miller Jr. (1923-1996) American science fiction writer
“The Soul-Empty Ones,” Astounding Science Fiction (1951-08)

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"The Soul-Empty Ones," Astounding Science Fiction (1951-08) - Miller, Walter M. | WIST Quotations

To mourn is to pity oneself. The dead feel nothing. The mourner does not pity the dead. He pities himself for having lost the living.

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🇺🇸 American Candidate: Joe Biden 🫏
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🥺 Tragedy struck again in 2015 with the ⚰️ death of Biden's son Beau. As he 😔 grieved, he knew he had to decide whether to run for president one more time. Would he find the courage to do it?

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Deir el-Balah, #Gaza

A woman and a man try to comfort an injured boy mourning the loss of his father who was killed in the aftermath of overnight Israeli bombardment in al-Maghazi, in the central Gaza Strip, at the morgue of the Aqsa Martyrs hospital

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The puppeteer who helped bring the Muppets to life was also a bereaved queer man searching for love - LGBTQ Nation

A friend of the late Muppeteer Richard Hunt said he vowed to live life to the fullest after losing his boyfriend.

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Labour’s compassion for the Gaza bereaved: police manhandling

Labour’s position on the Gaza genocide is now very ugly indeed. As Angela Rayner was giving a speech, a bereaved Palestinian interrupted to raise awareness of what is actually happening in Ga…

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#CoronerServiceUK

It would seem that most #DeathCertificatesUK simply list what the person's #GPrecord currently states as their current/chronic medical condition.

If you're old and frail enough to be expected to die 'soon', no one much enquires further unless the #bereaved make a fuss.

Which us just what they feel like doing at the time...

https://rozenberg.substack.com/p/unintended-consequences

Unintended consequences

Is the new system of medical examiners allowing GPs to dump work on coroners?

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What might feel to a #bereaved or #traumatized part of me to like comfort is actually more like a prison #hoarding https://www.tiktok.com/@thathoarderoch/video/7281746331066961184
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What might feel to a #bereaved or #traumatized part of me to like comfort is actually more like a prison #hoarding

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My bio lists #GriefandLoss as one of my interests, but I have yet to post on the subject.
I lost my beloved sister in 1999 when she was 15 & I was 24, & lost my father (69) quite suddenly to #PancreaticCancer in 2016.
As an #ArtsAndHealth practitioner I have encountered loss in all its forms, working with those living with #dementia & other age-related illnesses, & also with the #Bereaved.
Here, I wrote about the #loss of my father through the lens of #MusicAndGrief.

https://medium.com/@sharmurphy/listening-on-when-it-hurts-to-listen-b778c78c3779

What might feel to a #bereaved or #traumatized part of me to like comfort is actually more like a prison #hoarding https://www.tiktok.com/@thathoarderoch/video/7281746331066961184
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What might feel to a #bereaved or #traumatized part of me to like comfort is actually more like a prison #hoarding

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