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Just stumble on this:

Funeral Blues
By, WH Auden

Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, 
Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone, 
Silence the pianos and with muffled drum 
Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come. 

Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead 
Scribbling on the sky the message He is Dead. 
Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves, 
Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves. 

He was my North, my South, my East and West, 
My working week and my Sunday rest, 
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song; 
I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong. 

The stars are not wanted now; put out every one, 
Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun, 
Pour away the ocean and sweep up the woods; 
For nothing now can ever come to any good.


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I've never really known anyone that has died.
To be honest I know nothing of death though it seems i am surrounded by it. 4 Kids in one year at my school, and the only one i knew was a jerk when i knew him.

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death |deθ|

.nounthe action or fact of dying or being killed; the end of the life of a person or organism : I don't believe in life after death | [as adj. ] a death sentence.• an instance of a person or an animal dying : there's been a death in his family.• the state of being dead : even in death, she was beautiful.• the permanent ending of vital processes in a cell or tissue.• ( Death) [in sing. ] the personification of the power that destroys life, often represented in art and literature as a skeleton or an old man holding a scythe.• [in sing. ] figurative the destruction or permanent end of something : the death of her hopes.• figurative informal a damaging or destructive state of affairs : to be driven to a dance by one's father would be social death.PHRASESat death's door (esp. in hyperbolic use) so ill that one might die.be the death of (often used hyperbolically or humorously) cause someone's death : you'll be the death of me with all your questions.be in at the death be present when a hunted animal is caught and killed. • be present when something fails or comes to an end.catch one's death ( of cold) informal catch a severe cold or chill.do someone to death kill someone.do something to death perform or repeat something so frequently that it becomes tediously familiar : a subject that has been done to death by generations of painters.a fate worse than death a terrible experience, esp. that of seduction or rape.like death warmed over (or up) informal extremely tired or ill.a matter of life and death see life .put someone to death kill someone, esp. with official sanction.till (or until) death us do part for as long as both persons in a couple live. [ORIGIN: from the marriage service in theBook of Common Prayer.]to death used of a particular action or process that results in someone's death : he was stabbed to death. • used to emphasize the extreme nature of a specific action, feeling, or state of mind : I'm sick to death of you.to the death until dead : a fight to the death.DERIVATIVESdeathlike |-ˌlīk| adjectiveORIGIN Old English dēath, of Germanic origin; related toDutch dood and German Tod, also to die 1 .

mourning |ˈmôrni ng |

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nounthe expression of deep sorrow for someone who has died, typically involving following certain conventions such as wearing black clothes : she's still in mourning after the death of her husband.

• black clothes worn as an expression of grief when someone dies.mourn |môrn|verb [ trans. ]feel or show deep sorrow or regret for (someone or their death), typically by following conventions such as the wearing of black clothes : Isabel mourned her husband |[ intrans. ] she had to mourn for her friends who died in the accident.• feel regret or sadness about (the loss or disappearance of something) : publishers mourned declining sales of hardback fiction.ORIGIN Old English murnan, of Germanic origin.

THE RIGHT WORD

Not everyone exhibits unhappiness in the same way. In this "unhappy" group of verbs, the stongest is grieve, implying deep mental anguish or suffering, often endured alone and in silence (: she grieved for years over the loss of her baby).Mourn is more formal and often more public; although it implies deep emotion felt over a period of time, that emotion may be more ceremonial than sincere (: the people mourned the loss of their leader).Lament comes from a Latin word meaning to wail or weep, and it therefore suggests a vocal or verbal expression of loss (: The shrieking women lamented their husbands' deaths).Bemoan also suggests suppressed or inarticulate sounds of grief, often expressing regret or disapproval (:to bemoan one's fate).Sorrow combines deep sadness with regret and often pertains to a less tragic loss than grieve or mourn (:sorrow over a lost love), while rue has even stronger connotations of regret and repentance (: she rued the day she was born).
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I've got to stop searching. Something is still missing. Maybe it's not death i should be digging through.

"I've never fought for my life, What do i know of Death?"

~M
*(Trying to keep myself from apologizing for this blog. Though I'm sure my one follower appreciate an apology.)