rest in peace, Goober

Our last cat, Goober, just died in front of us. He was fine yesterday, but I think had a stroke later in the day/evening. I saw Goober being born, and I saw him die. That's a unique experience, I think.

God

God is merely part of the human brain, an evolutionary coping mechanism that developed to make bearable our awareness of our own deaths.

Evel Knievel

Tater

I think my cat Tater might be dying. She's been hiding out for a week or more, and I doubt she's eaten much in that time. She's had an ear infection for awhile, one that doesn't seem to be going away. Tater's probably about 17, so I wouldn't doubt if it was getting close to time for her to go. Gomer (her son) and Sue died of cancer, so it wouldn't be a surprise to hear that that was her fate as well.

Tater in the sun

I'm waiting now to hear from Jerry, who's at the vet with Tater now.

When will I die?

You Will Die at Age 76

You're pretty average when it comes to how you live... And how you'll die as well.

At what age will you die?

quotes on life and death

From Chasing Daylight: How My Forthcoming Death Transformed My Life, by Eugene O'Kelly.

For anything that men can tell, death may be
the greatest good that can happen to them:
but they fear it as if they know quite well
that is was the greatest of evils. And what is
this but that shameful ignorance of thinking
that we konw what we do not know?

• Socrates

I intend to live forever. So far, so good.

• Steven Wright
  

If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.

• Maria Edgeworth

May you live every day of your life.

• Jonathan Swift
  

"It is never good dwelling on good-byes," she said. "It is not the being together that it prolongs, it is the parting."

• Elizabeth Asquity Bibesco, "The Fir and the Palm"

There is no death! What seems so is transition;
this life of mortal breath
is but a suburb of the life Elysian,
whose portal we call Death.

• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

calming the condemned

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2006-11-03-deathrowdrugs_x.htm

This combination of lethal injection drugs is posted on the wall in the equipment room next to the death chamber at Southern Ohio Corrections Facility in Lucasville, Ohio.