Death is a process as straightforward as mowing a lawn. - Antonella Gambotto-Burke

From the standpoint of the present, the future is always a derangement of ambitions.

Psychological autopsies are also necessary to identify errors or oversights and expunge guilt.

Recollections fell from me in flakes, in scales. All that remained of me was all that remains of anyone: a kind of iridescence. There was a fear that I would never again feel substantial, a fear that I would be a kind of psychic amputee.