Many African societies divide humans into three categories: those still alive on the earth, the sasha, and the zamani. The recently departed whose time on earth overlapped with people still here are the sasha, the living-dead. They are not wholly dead, for they still live in the memories of the living, who can call them to mind, create their likeness in art, and bring them to life in anecdote. When the last person to know an ancestor dies, that ancestor leaves the sasha for the zamani, the dead. As generalised ancestors, the zamani are not forgotten but revered. Many … can be recalled by name. But they are not the living-dead. There is a difference. James W. Loewen
I love you every day. And now I will miss you every day.
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Mitch Albom
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
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Isaac Asimov
Carve your name on hearts, not tombstones. A legacy is etched into the minds of others and the stories they share about you.
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Shannon L. Alder
Death twitches my ear;' Live, ' he says... 'I'm coming.
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Virgil
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