I would suggest you pick up the book "Tuesday With Morrie" by Mitch Albom. It helped me deal with my fathers death in 2000 and the subject of death in general.
http://www.randomhouse.com/features/morrie/
The book contains some interesting insights on dying from a man, Morrie Schwartz, who is dying from ALS. Reporter and friend Mitch Albom meets with Morrie every Tuesday and documents his views of life and death until Morrie's eventual passing.
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"Death ends a life, not a relationship." (174) - Morrie
Morrie states that as long as we can love each other and remember this feeling of love, we can die without ever going away because all of the love we have created will still remain. He states that after we die, we live on in the hearts of everyone we have touched and nurtured while we were on earth.
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"Once you learn how to die, you learn how to live." (82) - Morrie
Morrie says this during the fourth Tuesday when he and Mitch discuss death. Morrie feels that people refuse to believe that they will one day die, and therefore, do not live there lives as fully as they would have liked and also have many regrets as they become older and their death becomes closer. He feels that once we learn and accept that we are one day going to die, we learn to live our lives fully and without any regrets.
http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/...thMorrie16.asp