I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We think birth is a miracle and death is a tragedy, but really they're flip sides of the same coin - anything born is gonna die.
Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.
I was blessed with a birth and a death, and I guess I just want some say in between.
The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.
Birth and death are the most singular events we experience - and the contemplation of death, as of birth, should be a thing of beauty, not ignobility.
I've always been so curious about death. With my personal beliefs as a Baha'i, we believe that birth and death are very similar and that we're here on this Earth to develop all of the things we can't see.
Birth and death; we all move between these two unknowns.
When my father passed away and then when later on I gave birth, those are sort of ground-breaking experiences that put everything else into perspective.
When I was born, I was effectively dead. Weird, I know. The doctors couldn't get any reaction from me, so I had to be brought round, and although it seemed like I was okay, there were underlying problems.
I am not the born; how can there be either birth or death for me?