David Brooks compares the "resume virtues" and the "eulogy virtues"

David Brooks' book The Road to Character describes the difference between "resume virtues" and "eulogy virtues" and argues we should focus on cultivating the latter.

Final wishes

This is a great story about final wishes. To read more click the link:
7 powerful photographs of terminally ill people living out their final wishes

Death and modern life

"Each year around 50,000 people die in New York, some alone and unseen. Ronald Rodriguez, who investigates such deaths, says: 'I try to build a life like it’s the last day. You never know when you will die. Before this, I went along like I would live forever.'"Click on the link to read  The Lonely Death of George Bell

An amazing conversation about grief between amazing men

Luminous at the end

UCC minister Anthony B. Robinson tells the story of his sister's last 40 days in this moving article from The Christian Century: Luminous at the end

The musings of a young man on mortality and the passage of time

Don't waste your precious time living someone else's life