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The Meaning of Death

The end-of-life story about dying three times has fascinated me for some time. I've heard it as a folk tale, a neuroscientist's tale, and now, thanks to The NewsHour, a Jewish tale.

The Jewish saying is that you die twice. You die once, when you do die, but the second time you die is when your name isn't spoken anymore.


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Numbers Instead of Names on the Forgotten Graves of Asylum Patients - http://t.co/LyhI0vqVq0

— Atlas Obscura (@atlasobscura) December 7, 2014
Mike Schultz

People’s ideas live on through you and adapt through you...5min #Film http://t.co/xmSCl1Nnni pic.twitter.com/SONvmgYsN4

— Tiffany Shlain (@tiffanyshlain) December 17, 2014
Mike Schultz
It was true what they had been saying: if people remember you, then you’re not dead. It was very comforting.
— Maeve Binchy, Minding Frankie via Vintage Anchor Books
Mike Schultz
Another perspective
Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist, Guy de Maupassant
http://vintageanchorbooks.tumblr.com/post/126140700243/our-memory-is-a-more-perfect-world-than-the
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Related— >A name is precious; it carries inside it a language, a history, a set of traditions, a particular way of looking at the world. Losing it meant losing my ties to all those things too. ― Laila Lalami, The Moor’s Account via Vintage Anchor Books
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