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Tag: Death

Your Death Is Not a Blip

April 23, 2018 Marcos McPeek Villatoro

We all die. But, most people don’t like to think about that, which I think is a mistake. I find it helpful to consider my

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We’re all gonna die.

December 28, 2017 Marcos McPeek Villatoro

Death is something we don’t like to think about much, especially our own. I don’t believe it’s good to dwell on it too much, because

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Why Live? Good Question

November 29, 2017 Marcos McPeek Villatoro

It’s the end of the semester at my university, and I see near-horror on every single one of my students’ faces. Haggard, stressed, they walk

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“F**k You, Death.”

August 29, 2017 Marcos McPeek Villatoro

We’ve been reading about Death in Robert Frost’s and Emily Dickinson’s poems. They’ve both got different voices, and different “angles” on dying. Now we have

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Emily’s Fly

August 28, 2017 Marcos McPeek Villatoro

We’re reading Emily Dickinson now, some of her greatest hits (she had tons). Emily was a poet from the 19th century, from Massachusetts, who wrote

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