“It is much worse to be dead when we are alive/ Dead by the fear of death, when we are not yet dead!/ The incredible paradox of worrying to avoid death / Being the very cause of death!”

—  Kuruvilla Pandikattu

Death: Live It! p. 80.
Death: Live It! (2005)

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