Death
A rescue party was organized and when they arrived Jacob Donner was dead and George Donner's arm had become gangrenous. The rescuers took George's daughters Elitha and Leanna, leaving George behind. The second and third rescue parties found George too weak to travel. When the fourth and last relief party arrived on April 17, 1847 they found George Donner dead in his bed.
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“And death i think is no parenthesis”
—E.E. (Edward Estlin)
“For in the word death
There is nothing to grasp; nothing to catch or claim;
Nothing to adapt the skill of the heart to, skill
In surviving, for death it cannot survive,
Only resign the irrecoverable keys.
The wave falters and drowns. The coulter of joy
Breaks. The harrow of death
Depends. And there are thrown up waves.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)
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—Socrates (469–399 B.C.)