I've told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation.

I've told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation.

Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.

For those who seek to understand it, death is a highly creative force. The highest spiritual values of life can originate from the thought and study of death.

Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star; one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever.

It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we're alive - to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are.