End of Life Stories

You have come to the right place, and we are glad you are here. This is a safe place to share stories of love and loss, devastating grief, exhausting care-giving, memorials, advanced directives, mourning, hope, and despair. We want to hear about about what you wish you had known or done differently, what you wish those around you had known or done differently, and what went right. We will never tell you to move on or find closure. "What cannot be said will be wept." Sappho

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Saturday, May 30, 2020

From the Gravestone of Artist Gwen Frostic

Michigan artist Gwen Frostic: Here lies one doubly blessed -- she was happy and she knew it.

Monday, November 5, 2018

Epitaph on Elizabeth LH by Ben Jonson

Epitaph on Elizabeth, L. H.

BY BEN JONSON

Wouldst thou hear what man can say

In a little? Reader, stay.

Underneath this stone doth lie

As much beauty as could die;

Which in life did harbour give

To more virtue than doth live.

If at all she had a fault,

Leave it buried in this vault.

One name was Elizabeth,

Th' other let it sleep with death:

Fitter, where it died to tell,

Than that it liv'd at all. Farewell.

Epitaph; To Live in Hearts We Leave Behind is Not to Die

“To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.”
― Thomas Campbell

Monday, July 13, 2015

Epitaph on Elizabeth L. H. by Ben Jonson

Wouldst thou hear what man can say In a little? Reader, stay. Underneath this stone doth lie As much beauty as could die; Which in life did harbour give To more virtue than doth live. If at all she had a fault, Leave it buried in this vault. One name was Elizabeth, Th' other let it sleep with death: Fitter, where it died to tell, Than that it liv'd at all. Farewell.