Death and Burial
She died in Buenos Aires in 1998 and was buried in the family vault in the Cementerio de La Recoleta.
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Famous quotes containing the words death and, death and/or burial:
“I can only see death and more death, till we are black and swollen with death.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)
“The dignity to be sought in death is the appreciation by others of what one has been in life,... that proceeds from a life well lived and from the acceptance of one’s own death as a necessary process of nature.... It is also the recognition that the real event taking place at the end of our life is our death, not the attempts to prevent it.”
—Sherwin B. Nuland (b. 1930)
“How shall my animal
Whose wizard shape I trace in the cavernous skull,
Vessel of abscesses and exultation’s shell,
Endure burial under the spelling wall....”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)