(Special) Death and Grief: Some Lessons that help in Lessening the Burden of losing loved ones
The ironic possibility of Human conquest over death has definitively been immortalised in the great Literatures by John Donne's (1572-1631) timeless, 'Death Be not Proud/ 'though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful...'; a sordid rebuke of death, only possible (of course) in the realms of the metaphysical, literary imagination.
But it was compatriot James Shirley (1596-1666) who hit it squarely on the head, that death is ever, "the Leveller", poeticising: "the glories of our blood and State are shadows/Not Substantial things'.
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Death and Grief Some Lessons That Help in Lessening the Burden of Losing Loved Ones
