Sue Black - All That Remains: A Life in Death

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For Tom, for ever my love and my life.

And for Beth, Grace and Anna each is my favourite daughter.

Thank you all for making every moment of my life worthwhile.

Death is not the greatest loss in life.
The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live

Norman Cousins
political journalist (19151990)

Mortui vivos docent (The dead teach the living)

Origin unknown

Without systematic attention to death, life sciences would not be complete

Elie Metchnikoff
microbiologist (18451916)

If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death

Samuel Butler
writer (18351902)

Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory

Theodor Seuss Geisel
writer, cartoonist and animator (190491)

The measure of life is not its duration, but its donation

Peter Marshall
pastor (190249)

There is something about a closet that makes a skeleton terribly restless

Wilson Mizner
playwright, entrepreneur and raconteur (18761933)

De mortuis nil nisi bene dicendum
Of the dead, speak only good

Chilon of Sparta
Greek sage (600BC)

True identity theft is not financial. Its not in cyberspace. Its spiritual

Stephen Covey
educator (19322012)

Let fire and cross, flocks o beasts, broken bones and dismemberment come upon me

Ignatius of Antioch
bishop and martyr (circa 35107)

More inhumanity has been done by man himself than any other of natures causes

Baron Samuel von Pufendorf
political philosopher (163294)

Show me the manner in which a nation cares for its dead and I will measure with mathematical exactness the tender mercies of its people, their respect for the laws of the land, and their loyalty to high ideals

Attributed to William E. Gladstone
prime minister of the UK (180998)

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark

Francis Bacon
philosopher and scientist (15611626)