Tag: death
He doesn’t even want his loved ones to know he is dying of a rare terminal illness, but he forgot…
They say when you see yourself, it is time to die. But there is another way to see yourself, and another…
Forgetting that death is eventual, that it can come all too sudden, he was contented that he was ‘completely healed’,…
From the movie ‘Peepli (Live)’, which is social tragedy of about how a poor farmer was tempted to kill himself…
From the 1957 movie ‘The River’directed by Jean Renoir – Same But Different Nan: Why can’t you be good like…
Emma: (During year one of their meeting, after which they part for a year) Whatever happens tomorrow, we’ve had today. And…
The Japanese movie ‘Helen the Baby Fox’ is surprisingly more life-affirming than expected, bearing in mind that ‘School Days with…
Those attached to living well, who have aversion to death, might forget that death is always eventual, that death can…
You cry when you are born. Because returning painfully is suffering. How much more tears? You cry when you are…
‘It’s Kind of a Funny Story’, simply put, is an ode to life. An ode to living itself: He who…
A blog reader urgently wanted to use the second poem at https://moonpointer.com/new/2010/02/the-famous-funeral-poem for a real funeral, and asked for the…
While hosting a game of setting deadlines for our bucket lists, one participant listed becoming a vegan in a few…
To a Buddhist friend on disseminating news of a forum (slightly extended): ‘Even though the topic is of universal interest,…
S: Message to friend discussing about 2012: “We might die the next second! Between now and 2012 or beyond, many…
He sits idly at the coffee shop, with an already empty cup, Just looking around… He had spent so many…
Some lament of not finding a dream partner, of not getting the one one wants now. Some lament of losing…
A friend sent by the Chinese text below, written by a Dharma teacher, for comments. My comments are in English,…
The above is Art Spiegelman’s ‘Synopsis’ of the human condition. This mortal life is as if a definite walk towards…
Lost a good idea within a finger snap Arghhh! Imagine if this happens on the deathbed. Arghhh! Not a good…
If a pet has died, will you get a new pet? Will you relive the possible pain of departure again?…
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