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Prabha Rao is an author. Her latest ebook novella is titled The Deadly Turn Of The Doorknob. Prabha has also worked as a Foreign Language Linguist and has a great interest in learning about different cultures. She plays the piano as she believes in the rejuvenating power of music. Contact her on twitter@authorprabharao.

6 Empowering Lessons Death Taught Me About Life

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“Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss in life is what dies inside us while we live” ~Norman Cousins

I am not dead and I am not dying, so you may wonder why I write that death has taught me what I need to know about life.

I lost my mother when I was fifteen. Being a teenager, thoughts of anyone close to me dying had not entered my head. My mother had a brief illness and passed away unexpectedly at age forty-seven.

I remember that my schoolmates came to see me, and I kept thinking …