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Tag Archives: dying
Poem: Unanswerable Questions
By Dave Hood It’s mid October. Yellow birches descending. Frost covering lawns and windshields of parked automobiles. A few decorated pumpkins perched on porches, reminding of Halloween. The town’s still and quiet, except for a cool breeze, chilling the bones. … Continue reading →
Posted in Poetry, Unanswerable Questions, Unanswerable Questions
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Tagged afterlife, cancer, creative writing, Dave Hood, dying, free verse, Poem, poet, Questions, Unanswerable Questions
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What Can Death Teach Us about Life and Living?
“Death is the tyrant of the imagination.”—Bryan Proctor “For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.”—Khalil Gibran “Without health– life is not life; it is only a state of languor and suffering” – … Continue reading →
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Tagged afterlife, Agnostic, Buddhism, death, Denial, Denial of Death, dying, eternal life, existentialism, Five Stages of Grief, Kubler Ross, legacy, meaning, Questions, regrets, Regrets of the dying, soul, Spirit, Theist, What can death teach you, What happens after a person dies, What happens when a person dies
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Writing Creative Nonfiction 