"It’s ironic. I see people who are living who walk through life feeling dead inside, just passing time until they die. Then there are those who have died who want to stay with the living and have never felt more alive. There are people who had a chemical imbalance in life who, now dead, want to join the living because they see how beautiful life can be. There are also souls who just had such a great life that they still want to share it with their loved ones. And there are people who died too soon who choose to remain with the living who are the same age so they can live through their experiences. There are people who fought to live an extra day, or to see one last sunset, and they fight for these things out of love of life. Life is meant to inspire us to take a chance, to reach down into the very core of who we are and bring that to the surface to share."
DuBois Allison. We are their heaven. Why the dead never leave us. Simon & Schuster, UK, 2006.
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