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Gerard S Brungardt MD BeL
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man dies only once in his life …

January 8, 2011
Categories: Hospice & Palliative Medicine, Spirituality
Tags: death & dying, suffering

… and as he lacks experience of the event he bungles it. So that he may die successfully, he must learn how to die by following the instruction of experienced men who know what it means to die in the midst of life. Asceticism gives us this experience of death. (Florensky)(quoted in The World of Silence – Max Picard)

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