Memoirs: Death

by Deborah Markus

"Knowing that a death is coming doesn't make it any easier to bear when it arrives," a friend of mine told me. "It just makes it a different kind of unbearable." I don't know if that's true. I think that there are no ...read more

by Richetta Henry

The Belly of a Cocoon The vikings had ships, the American Indians had horses and astronauts have rockets, our life long task has been to get to the NEXT POINT. Death is a form of public transportation-taking the soul...read more

by Michael Tan

My Sister The Day She Died Loosing someone close is a traumatic experience. Even more so if the loss should come suddenly and without prior warning. The accompanying pain often lingers, and years after there are often ...read more

by Cyn Bagley - Memoirs Steward

Death seems like a huge deal - the end of our lives. How can we prepare for it? But, it is the little deaths that prepare us for the big one. Some days I forget that life and death are just two sides of one coin. And, some...read more

by Linda Hill

Memoirs:Death What is Death, we all ask the same question. I wonder all the time about Death. The unknown. A serious motor vehicle accident in August, 1989, left me dead, for moments, twice.Our Toyota rolled 1.5 times o...read more

by S. james-T Ward

To the Living... Ti's another day, today, and the morrow shall for most spin directionally apportioned while filled with an emotional sundry of cause, effect and action therein. I stayed, perhaps, a bit too long aside...read more

by Victor Morabito

What part of death shall ever realize? Or is life the other side of death? If death escape us, then it entrants us into another existence. Is death the other side of life? Which side of reality dies? Cherrubs gl...read more

by Joan Wheeler Nicholson

If I Should Die Before I Wake, Who/Whom Should I Call? My brother called me the other day. We're both senior citizens. He's 65 - a few years younger than me. I'm 68 and still counting. When he was little, probably aroun...read more

by Denice Nieva

I could safely say to myself... "I've died a million deaths" during my childhood and also now in my young adulthood. "What a freakin' strange quotation! How could you die a million deaths if you can only live once?!" ...read more

by Susan Cooper

The Day Dad Died I still remember this as if it was yesterday, although it also seems as if it happened in another lifetime to another person. It was February 6th 1962, I was 13 and my brother was 10. My Mum and Dad...read more

by Toni Doswell

NO TIME TO DIE (based on a true story) The grim faced doctor turned to leave. He had done all he could to help Agnes. She was terminally ill. The doctor did not give her a long time to live. Agnes browsed her min...read more

by Robert Hunter

Don't Fear the Reaper Robert M. Hunter The sun shone through the wintry clouds on that day. It was neither bright nor dull it was just there. Cars drove into the parking lot with solemn drivers and passengers. There...read more

by Ian Black

I remember sitting in the Principal's office one dully Friday afternoon, waiting anxiously, my fingers twiddling and rotating over one another; as my mum wandered in to the office. From experience, there are mainly tw...read more

by Ke'Lannie Rockett

Death seems to take people at anytime. It's a silent killer when it wants to be. My uncle Pop was at home in his kitchen window as his girlfriend tells it. He was in the sink washing a shirt. Before he had known it he was ...read more

by Joshua Campbell

As I Lay Dying As I lay dying The worries of an old man remain The cares of a bright future quickly slip away The dreams and hopes I once had temporarily disappear And regret come to me like an instant me...read more

by Jimmy Mcgregor

January 5th 1998 may have been the worst day of my life. It was Monday morning around 7:50 when I received the call from my mother. She was hysterical and all I could make out was grandma and hospital. She could not tel...read more

by Lisa Bridges

Death is something that we all are going to face one day. How we cope with death is different for every individual. Death can come to us at any giving moment in time whether we are sleeping, eating, or doing anything in ...read more

by Gabriel Fin

It was late in the afternoon, a warm February day. I had just come home from a long walk. I came into my room, kicked of my shoes, and stretched out comfortably on my bed. It felt so good to just lay there, sunken into the...read more

by Lindie Cook

SERENDIPITY (My thoughts about the senseless death of two people we loved dearly.) I found that the only way to deal with death once the initial blow has passed, was to write songs and poetry to release my feelings. At...read more

by Amy Gunn

Death has always carried a mystery behind its walls for those of us who remain behind when our loved ones go. We hear of life after death experiences and are taught by religion what we may expect when this life ends, but ...read more