American dream Quote by Edgar Friedenberg

“Dead people look very, very dead. It is difficult to grasp what that means, since it’s unlikely that any of us will stumble across…

— Caitlin Doughty

“Many children and grandchildren of immigrants, have, like Sarah, found themselves severed from their family’s cultural rituals. The funeral system in the United States…

— Caitlin Doughty

Funerals cost so much money, and are likely to be an additional source of stress in this recession - it's sad that we don't…

— Meghan O'Rourke

“Left to their own devices, human bodies rot, decompose, come apart, and sink gloriously back into the earth from whence they came. Using embalming…

— Caitlin Doughty

Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are…

— Douglas MacArthur

President Bush is often out there talking about the importance of staying the course, and about the sacrifice, but he has not attended a…

— Dana Milbank

Part of the American dream is to live long and die young.

— Edgar Friedenberg

Many Americans don't mourn in public anymore - we don't wear black, we don't beat our chests and wail.

— Meghan O'Rourke

I hate funerals. They aren't for the guy who's dead. They're for the guys who are left alive and enjoy mourning.

— Humphrey Bogart

He was so poor that he couldnt afford a funeral thats why he is still alive.

— Vikrant Parsai

Come now, don't make such a funeral face. It isn't dying that's sad; it's living when you're not happy.

— Octave Mirbeau

Many, if not most, Americans can imagine a fate worse than death, and it is a seemingly interminable process of dying. For them, it…

— John C. Danforth