#deathbed — Public Fediverse posts
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No One Dies Lying
On the twenty-second of May, 1929, at Fort Riley, Kansas, a woman named Zenana Shepard sent her nurse to a closet for a bottle of bootleg whiskey. She said the liquor had a strange smell and a strange taste, and she asked whether enough remained in the bottle to test it for poison. Then she said the sentence that would outlive her by four years and travel all the way to the Supreme Court of the United States: "Dr. Shepard has poisoned me." The doctor was her husband, Charles A. Shepard, a major in the Army medical corps, and the government would later argue he had salted that whiskey with bichloride of mercury because he loved a woman named Grace Brandon and his wife declined to divorce him. Zenana Shepard died on the fifteenth of June. Her husband was convicted of her murder, and her sentence, the spoken one, did much of the convicting. […] -
In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and want to be loved. Indeed, most of their vices are attempted short cuts to love. When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influence and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and his dying a cold horror. It seems to me that if you or I just choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to our world.
John Steinbeck (1902-1968) American writer
East of Eden, ch. 34 (1952)More about this quote: wist.info/steinbeck-john/84523…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #death #deathbed #humannature #loneliness #love #meaningoflife #mementomori #mortality #passing
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Just for the love of the game, lmao
https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/1858581/just-for-the-love-of-the-game-lmao
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@spotlightonpod Take out the #airpods and #listen to the #soundscape you're in as though it's live #music. Because it is, and on your #deathbed you'll #wish that you had.
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When #SueKerr's #father #died, another #tragedy hit home: The #newspaper #obituary is on its #deathbed.
#Obituaries helped #communities to #share #information about their #losses. They are also invaluable #researchtools. #Changes in the #newspaper #industry threaten this resource.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Pennsylvania #Pittsburgh #Media #Representation #Culture
https://www.publicsource.org/pittsburgh-fathers-day-obituary-newspapers-history/
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I'm going through some old notes I wrote while my dad told me some stories on his death bed.
One note that I never got to explore:
"Peggy, your grandma, was a detective on the Manson case when they were in Texas."
As in, Charles Manson.
[true story]
#detective #writingCommunity #amwriting #manson #cult #deathbed #stories #texas
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DYING OF OLD AGE
At age 73, I am often reading of my contemporaries dying. To be honest, I always check to see the cause of death. If it's an illness or disease, I am relieved. 'Cause that's understandable. But, if it's just 'old age,' I'm appalled and worried. I want to die of 'natural causes' at a much older age. Too much more to see and do and learn and be.
#aging #death #naturualcauses #illness #disease #obituary #dying #age #oldage #elderly #aged #deathbed
