How fascinating is death, the extinction of life. One moment here and the next gone. The light put out and only the empty bag of the body left. (Henry van Dyke)

How fascinating is death, the extinction of life. One moment here and the next gone. The light put out and only the empty bag of the body left.

Henry van Dyke

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