Death
After visiting with his wife, Kentucky poet laureate Joy Bale Boone, George Street Boone was injured in an automobile accident which affected his mental capabilities and forced him into a nursing home. He died after a long illness at the age of 86. In his will, he left over a million dollars to the Milliken Memorial Community House and the Todd County Public Library.
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Famous quotes containing the word death:
“There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.”
—Albert Camus (1913–1960)
“During these fits of absolute unconsciousness I drank, God only knows how often or how much. As a matter of course, my enemies referred the insanity to the drink rather than the drink to the insanity. I had indeed, nearly abandoned all hope of a permanent cure when I found one in the death of my wife.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)
“Life is grown sweeter and lonelier,
And death is no evil.”
—Robinson Jeffers (1887–1962)