How We Die: The Art of Living & Dying Meaningfully

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November 3, 2014 a project of ServiceSpace There are those who forget that death comes to everyone. For those who remember, all quarrels come to an end. - Buddha - How We Die: The Art of Living & Dying Meaningfully Sherwin Nuland writes about death, but not in the way that you might expect. He wants to clear the fog of the fear of death away from our eyes. Death, in his view, has everything to do with how we live. In his own words: "The honesty and grace of the years of life that are ending is the real measure of how we die. It is not in the last weeks or days that we compose the message that will be remembered, but in all the decades that preceded them. Who has lived in dignity, dies in dignity." { read more } Be The Change It is in offering dignity to others that our own dignity is revealed. Make your day an offering of dignity to others. Reflect on how it feels inside. COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News 24 Acts of Kindness To Restore Faith In Humanity Ten Things You Might Not Know About Love The One Thing They Carried With Them The Beautiful Fragility of Language The Difference Between Listening & Hearing 10 Creative Rituals To Learn From Gandhi's Ten Rules for Changing the World Maya Angelou On Resilience and Children DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 150,365 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other ServiceSpace projects include: KindSpring  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  Awakin  //  More