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For all its technological achievements, Western Society has
very little understanding of death, or what happens in or after death.
Death does not mean annihilation and loss.
People die as unprepared for death as they are unprepared for life.
They serve only the great machinery of nature and
not the desires or wishes of the Gods.
The subject of death and dying must be opened up.
Appreciation for life often comes as knowledge of
one's death emerges, then one is ravaged by regret.
We are not condemned to go out empty-handed at death
to meet the great unknown.
We can begin to prepare for the experience now.
Death is a mirror in which the whole experience of life is reflected.
My greatest wish is to live and die without regret.
Mervyn Brady -
Extract from email to his students dated Tuesday, Sept. 8th, 1998.
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