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Final closure...................................

 
 
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Reply Wed 25 Aug, 2004 01:28 pm
Kubhler-Ross (Elizabeth) has died.

http://home.bellsouth.net/s/editorial.dll?bfromind=2214&eeid=4279693&_sitecat=1522&eetype=article&render=y&ck=

She had the same attitude toward death as did Robert Browning.

Fear death?--to feel the fog in my throat,
The mist in my face,
When the snows begin, and the blasts denote
I am nearing the place,
The power of the night, the press of the storm,
The post of the foe;
Where he stands, the Arch Fear in a visible form,
Yet the strong man must go:
For the journey is done and the summit attained,
And the barriers fall,
Though a battle's to fight ere the guerdon be gained,
The reward of it all.
I was ever a fighter, so--one fight more,
The best and the last!
I would hate that death bandaged my eyes and forbore,
And bade me creep past.
No! let me taste the whole of it, fare like my peers
The heroes of old,
Bear the brunt, in a minute pay glad life's arrears
Of pain, darkness and cold.
For sudden the worst turns the best to the brave,
The black minute's at end,
And the elements' rage, the fiend-voices that rave,
Shall dwindle, shall blend,
Shall change, shall become first a peace out of pain,
Then a light, then thy breast,
O thou soul of my soul! I shall clasp thee again,
And with God be the rest
 
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Reply Wed 25 Aug, 2004 02:54 pm
"On Death and Dying" was one of the books I had to read while in religious school. It was touching, and so is her passing.
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Reply Wed 25 Aug, 2004 03:02 pm
Well, Cav. I appreciate the woman's tackling a heretofore taboo subject and being straight. So many euphemisms for being DEAD!

I remember when my mother-in-law was so ill, my father-in-law wouldn't even say the word, cancer.

Eat, drink, and be merry, I guess. Frankly, I never subscribed to that philosophy.

Speaking of which. It is approaching happy hour here. Very Happy
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Reply Thu 26 Aug, 2004 08:27 am
What a shame. Hers is a great loss, to literature and to humanity. She was one of the few people not frightened about this taboo. One has to commend her bravery in facing the exinction to which we most reluctantly travel.

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Reply Thu 26 Aug, 2004 08:28 am


And death shall have no dominion.
Dead men naked they shall be one
With the man in the wind and the west moon;
When their bones are picked clean and the clean bones gone,
They shall have stars at elbow and foot;
Though they go mad they shall be sane,
Though they sink through the sea they shall rise again;
Though lovers be lost love shall not;
And death shall have no dominion.

And death shall have no dominion.
Under the windings of the sea
They lying long shall not die windily;
Twisting on racks when sinews give way,
Strapped to a wheel, yet they shall not break;
Faith in their hands shall snap in two,
And the unicorn evils run them through;
Split all ends up they shan't crack;
And death shall have no dominion.

And death shall have no dominion.
No more may gulls cry at their ears
Or waves break loud on the seashores;
Where blew a flower may a flower no more
Lift its head to the blows of the rain;
Though they be mad and dead as nails,
Heads of the characters hammer through daisies;
Break in the sun till the sun breaks down,
And death shall have no dominion.


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Reply Thu 26 Aug, 2004 08:33 am
Wow! That poem is fabulous, drom. I'm certain "Liza" would approve.
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