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Daniela Cabrera
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“My weaknesses had become my strengths, my ugliness had become beauty, my apathy to the world had become a desire to save it.”
― The Long Hard Road Out of Hell
― The Long Hard Road Out of Hell
“Holding the space doesn’t mean swaddling the family immobile in their grief. It also means giving them meaningful tasks. Using chopsticks to methodically clutch bone after bone and place them in an urn, building an altar to invite a spirit to visit once a year, even taking a body from the grave to clean and redress it: these activities give the mourner a sense of purpose. A sense of purpose helps the mourner grieve. Grieving helps the mourner begin to heal.”
― From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
― From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
“The longer you spend doing something you don’t believe in, the more the systems of your body rebel.”
― Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory
― Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory
“Moonlight is sculpture; sunlight is painting.”
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“Insist on going to the cremation, insist on going to the burial. Insist on being involved, even if it is just brushing your mother’s hair as she lies in her casket. Insist on applying her favorite shade of lipstick, the one she wouldn’t dream of going to the grave without. Insist on cutting a small lock of her hair to place in a locket or a ring. Do not be afraid. These are human acts, acts of bravery and love in the face of death and loss.”
― From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
― From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
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