When I see someone who is starved they don't look alert. They don't have boundless energy. If you're too skinny it looks like you're near death.

What is ironic is that Allen Ginsberg's importance was in its twilight for so many years that it took his death to bring it to the front page. He electrified an entire world!

Life itself is but the shadow of death and souls departed but the shadows of the living.

We all labor against our own cure for death is the cure of all diseases.

Of course we avoid death. To know something is inevitable is one thing. To accept to truly feel it... that's different.

Since fame is an illusion and death is in our future all we have is the next moment before we are swallowed into oblivion.

I'm death obsessed. You know I have death all over my house. I have a stuffed two headed sheep!

Though I am a Catholic a professing one I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.

The drink? Yes I've had tough times in my life especially the last year regarding my ex-wife my kids I nearly broke my neck I was on death row with pneumonia.

A number of cases have been reported in which a dying individual has a vision of a person about whose death he or she did not know.

Dying before dying has two important consequences: It liberates the individual from the fear of death and influences the actual experience of dying at the time of biological demise.

If consciousness can function independently of the body during one's lifetime it could be able to do the same after death.

Individuals approaching death often experience encounters with their dead relatives who seem to welcome them to the next world. These deathbed visions are authentic and convincing they are often followed by a state of euphoria and seem to ease the transition.

Research challenges the materialistic understanding of death according to which biological death represents the final end of existence and of all conscious activity.

The elimination of the fear of death transforms the individual's way of being in the world.

The experiences associated with death were seen as visits to important dimensions of reality that deserved to be experienced studied and carefully mapped.

The knowledge of the realm of death makes it possible for the shaman to move freely back and forth and mediate these journeys for other people.