Category Archives: Death and Dying

Top 5 Deathbed Regrets

Posted on October 2, 2012 by Thomas Armstrong

Here’s a little multiple choice quiz: When we come to the end of life, what is it that we are most likely to regret?  Is it: a) ”I wish that I had spent more time answering my email” b). ”I wish … Continue reading →

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Thomas Edison’s Telephone to the Afterlife

Posted on August 21, 2012 by Thomas Armstrong

Thomas Edison was one of the greatest inventors who ever lived.  He patented the incandescent light bulb, the carbon microphone, the phonograph, the motion picture projector, and a thousand other inventions.  But few people know that Edison also was working … Continue reading →

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Death & Dying: Famous Last Words

Posted on August 15, 2012 by Thomas Armstrong

“Open the second shutter so that more light may come in.”  (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe – 1749-1832) “Only one man understood me.  And he really didn’t understand me.”  (Georg Wilhelm Hegel – 1770-1831) “Go on, get out!  Last words are … Continue reading →

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The Stages of Life According to Tibetan Buddhism

Posted on August 8, 2012 by Thomas Armstrong

The Tibetan Book of the Dead or Bardo Thodol provides a map of the stages of life, which in this case, occurs not in a straight line but in a circle:  The Chi-Kha Bardo – this state occurs at the … Continue reading →

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