My mother worked for a very small newspaper. They had a no suicide rule. If someone killed themselves the paper said they "died at home". That was different from they "died at home after an illness" or they "died at home in an accident".
Remember, Man, as you pass by As you are now, so once was I As I am now, so you shall be Prepare for Death and follow me.
I'm reading the new Coolidge biography. The poor man's mother died suddenly when he was 12. 1884. Cause unknown. Then his sister suddenly died. 1890. Cause unknown. A lot of that back then. Causes being unknown.
Then his son died of blood poisoning in summer 1924. He was in the White House...running for re-election. Talk about severe....
'm reading the new Coolidge biography. The poor man's mother died suddenly when he was 12. 1884. Cause unknown. Then his sister suddenly died. 1890. Cause unknown. A lot of that back then. Causes being unknown. Then his son died of blood poisoning in summer 1924. He was in the White House...running for re-election. Talk about severe...
And in the final indignity, Coolidge himself was finished at age 60.
Not quite a way of saying "died", but I saw a tombstone in the graveyard of Bruton Parish Church in Williamsburg, VA that read "She hath done what she could". If anyone could say of me when I die that I did what I could, I would consider it a fine epitaph.
C: 'E's not pinin'! 'E's passed on! This parrot is no more! He has ceased to be! 'E's expired and gone to meet 'is maker!
'E's a stiff! Bereft of life, 'e rests in peace! If you hadn't nailed 'im to the perch 'e'd be pushing up the daisies! 'Is metabolic processes are now 'istory! 'E's off the twig! 'E's kicked the bucket, 'e's shuffled off 'is mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisibile!!
I like the phrase 'in a better place'. For some people who've died that's exactly true, since even if heaven doesn't exist non-existence is better than living in pain and debilitation.
For some reason I can't grasp, I hate the term 'passed'. Yet 'passed away' seems proper.
Maybe for the same reason I hate the phrase 'does not disappoint' that some people use when describing a book or movie. They leave off the subject of the non-disappointment. It's like half of a sentence and they're too lazy to complete the whole thing.
Letter by a rare Japanese survivor of the third straight useless Bansai attacks on USMC positions at Bloody Ridge on Guadalcanal: There seems to be a need to consider firepower.
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I would say that one would want to avoid #49.
Let's cross over the river and sit under the trees - Thomas J Jackson who stood like a stone wall
Strike the tent - Robert E Lee
Pardon my dust - Dorothy Parker
I kept waiting for slipped these mortal coils.
These chains, these chains that bi-ind you and that is why I am here to remi-ind you
Or slipped these surly bonds of Earth.
My mother worked for a very small newspaper. They had a no suicide rule. If someone killed themselves the paper said they "died at home". That was different from they "died at home after an illness" or they "died at home in an accident".
Remember, Man, as you pass by
As you are now, so once was I
As I am now, so you shall be
Prepare for Death and follow me.
I'm reading the new Coolidge biography. The poor man's mother died suddenly when he was 12. 1884. Cause unknown. Then his sister suddenly died. 1890. Cause unknown. A lot of that back then. Causes being unknown.
Then his son died of blood poisoning in summer 1924. He was in the White House...running for re-election. Talk about severe....
'm reading the new Coolidge biography. The poor man's mother died suddenly when he was 12. 1884. Cause unknown. Then his sister suddenly died. 1890. Cause unknown. A lot of that back then. Causes being unknown.
Then his son died of blood poisoning in summer 1924. He was in the White House...running for re-election. Talk about severe...
And in the final indignity, Coolidge himself was finished at age 60.
Peter
"Was Found Lashed to the Mast of His Sunken and Ill-Fated Vessel"
But isn't that the fate of us all?
And in the final indignity, Coolidge himself was finished at age 60.
Dude! You need to put **SPOLIER ALERT** I was going to read that book.
He fucking snuffed it!
"Left to go and be with Christ" is my favorite line. It is sucinct and says it all.
Couldn't outrun his friend. Fed the bear.
Free At Last
The privy seat was rotten.
died of a violent Fever contracted by drinking Small Beer when hot the 12th of May 1764. Aged 26 Years.
I like the one I heard on Wit (2001)
Where Emma Thomson's character, Professor Vivian Bearing, imagined it as "capturing my most endearing qualities... short but sweet".
Published and perished.
Not quite a way of saying "died", but I saw a tombstone in the graveyard of Bruton Parish Church in Williamsburg, VA that read "She hath done what she could". If anyone could say of me when I die that I did what I could, I would consider it a fine epitaph.
C: 'E's not pinin'! 'E's passed on! This parrot is no more! He has ceased to be! 'E's expired and gone to meet 'is maker!
'E's a stiff! Bereft of life, 'e rests in peace! If you hadn't nailed 'im to the perch 'e'd be pushing up the daisies!
'Is metabolic processes are now 'istory! 'E's off the twig!
'E's kicked the bucket, 'e's shuffled off 'is mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisibile!!
OT: Intinery?
Speaking of tombstone. Tombstone pizza, to die for.
Died and gone to that great wood-fired pizzeria in the sky red baron
But honestly, search pizza on my site is a straight up trip through the Elysian fields. See what I did there? Pizzas are like, Italian.
My mother is a fish.
101 ways for John Cleese to describe a Norwegian Blue parrot.
Death is a long cold rest.
Pink Floyd
Medical Clinic in Silver Spring
Wow Its a great post I must say.. Simple but yet entertaining and engaging.. Keep up the good work!
Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by,
that here, obedient to their laws, we lie.
Her curiosity escaped her.
I like the phrase 'in a better place'. For some people who've died that's exactly true, since even if heaven doesn't exist non-existence is better than living in pain and debilitation.
For some reason I can't grasp, I hate the term 'passed'. Yet 'passed away' seems proper.
Maybe for the same reason I hate the phrase 'does not disappoint' that some people use when describing a book or movie. They leave off the subject of the non-disappointment. It's like half of a sentence and they're too lazy to complete the whole thing.
There is one that I saw in Key West that states ... "I told you I was sick"
There is one that I saw in Key West that states ... "I told you I was sick"
It's a euthanism.
Here's some truthful ones:
"I'm just going to hang out with my buddy, Billy Ayers."
"Don't worry, this Obamacare will save me!"
"A fetus isn't alive." (Kermit Gosnell abortion).
"Going to hangout in Detroit!"
"I hung out with boys who looked like Obama's sons!"
Enjoy the decline, sheeple!
He Came Full Circle.
"Edwin pease lies in the sod
he shed his pod and went to God"
"I told you I was sick!" -- epitaph on tombstone
Letter by a rare Japanese survivor of the third straight useless Bansai attacks on USMC positions at Bloody Ridge on Guadalcanal: There seems to be a need to consider firepower.
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