What is the full context for Robert Anderson's sentence death ends a life is the wording for the sentence beginning death ends a life not a relationship?

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2026-04-08 20:40

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Many internet sources claim it says: “Death ends a life, but it does not end a relationship, which struggles on in the Survivor’s mind toward some resolution which it may never find.”

BUT if you read this article, "FACT-CHECKING AND THE FIVE STAGES OF JOURNALISTIC GRIEF

By Jack Limpert and posted DECEMBER 2, 2013, you will see the actual line is this:

‘Death ends a life. But it does not end a relationship.'

The sentence is a line at start of the play, “I Never Sang for My Father" by by Robert Anderson.


Moral: Always look for the primary source before quoting it.

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