Mortality
- About this book
- I was once a child – Sometimes it seems it happened to someone else.
- Too young – The child I remember seems too young.
- Hair just grows – I can do nothing to stop it.
- Grasshopper – Never wish for eternal life without eternal youth.
- Perspective – Any life is a minuscule part of forever.
- Ancestry – So many are dead and buried.
- Nothing special – My generation’s nothing special.
- Parents die – Dying is the natural course of things.
- Sisters shouldn’t die – Sisters aren’t supposed to die.
- Hiding death – We don’t want to see it.
- Pets – We’ve grieved for them.
- Actuarial – Maybe you can cheat the system.
- Balance – The balance of my life is past.
- Winchester House – Building didn’t keep her from dying.
- Assisted death – Both birth and death seem accidental.
- O Death – Both an end and a means.
- Death – It’s only what’s left.
- Afterlife – Death is an undiscovered country.
- Heaven – Is heaven where everybody gets to be somebody?
- Emotion – If emotion endures, is hope an emotion?
- What we know – Our beginnings and ends don’t define us.
- A grave with nothing in it – I won’t be there.
- Book of dreams – You are as powerless as a god.
- Blades of grass – The blades are uncountable.
- Seasons – We are a part of nature.
- Murders – Murder mysteries entertain us.
- Oblivion – If we should meet in oblivion, we’d never know it.
- Hell – If hell exists, it’s very old.
- No apparent cause – It’s not easy to explain.
- Murder mystery – You cannot hide.
- Last chapter – You can’t write the last chapter first.