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A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.
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For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.
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I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.
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They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.
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No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.
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A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.
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Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly.
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The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.
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The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.
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Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.
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Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.
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I saw few die of hunger of eating, a hundred thousand.
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Suicide is man’s way of telling God, ’You can’t fire me - I quit.’
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Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order.
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While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.
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I didn’t attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.
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What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
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Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there’s a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.