Antidotes to fear of death.

“It is our biological wiring to exist — and then not…” Read more at Brain Pickings

Death is for grown-ups.

“If being a kid is about learning how to live, then being a grown-up is about learning how to die.” — Stephen King

"Dying / Is an art, like everything else." — Sylvia Plath

And children’s book authors.

“To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.” — J.K. Rowling

“To die will be an awfully big adventure.” — J.M. Barrie

Notes on Grief.

“One night, in a vivid dream, my father comes back.”  —  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Read more at The New Yorker

Metaphors for death.

“Death is our friend, precisely because it brings us into absolute and passionate presence with all that is here, that is natural, that is love.” ― Rainer Marie Rilke