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“They say you fly when you die.Basically, when you die, your spirit leaves your body. Actually, at first you can see all your life, like, reflected in a magic mirror. Then you start floating like a ...”
“If nothing else, they died fast and they were warm. The boy from the plane, I thought. The one with the teddy bear. Where was Rudy's confort? Where was someone to alleviate this robbery of his life...”
“Whether I resolve to fire, earth, water, air, Or all the elements by scruples, I know not, Nor greatly care. - Shoot. Shoot!Of all deaths, the violent death is best;For from ourselves it steals our...”
“Like I said, Kenzie. Everything ends. I’m not afraid to die,” you say with a wan smile. “I just hope I’m smart enough to stay dead.”
“But when I am due…Keep local the chest to lay rest my simple skins in,”
“We all die alone. We shall endure death as once we endured birth. You can’t share either experience.”
“To die is different from what anyone supposed, and luckier.”
“Each man is master of his own death and all that we can do when the time comes is to help him die without fear of pain.”
“Everything I see reminds me that in a few days I shall no longer see it... It's horrible... I shall see nothing more... nothing of what exists... the smallest objects that we use... glasses... plat...”
“Don't worry," he would say, smiling. "Dying is much more difficult than one imagines.”
“And the camel driver had said, to die tomorrow was no worse than dying on any other day. Every day was there to be lived or to mark one's departure from this world.”
“(I didn’t tell him that thediagnosis came three months after I got my first period. Like: Congratulations! You’re a woman. Now die.)”
“Death isn't a tragedy to God, only to those left behind.”
“The only thing that can break the unbreakable is the unthinkable. I knew the moment I saw them alone in the waiting room that my worst fears were confirmed. They were all dead.I turned around and w...”
“Some bridges you crossed on your own, no matter who drove you to the edge.”
“We are, as we die, who we most were in life...”
“t nightfall, atthe oppressive moment of transition, a storm of carnivorous mosquitoes roseout of the swamps, and a tender breath of human shit, warm and sad, stirredthe certainty of death in the de...”
“Only the rocks live forever, Gray Wolf said.”
“Chip, she’s gone,” and he said, “I thought I’d feel her looking down on us, but you’re right. She’s just gone”
“Do you really think anyone needs some kind of notarized statement saying 'Dear Saint Peter, here's another stiff, pass him through the gates, signed, Father McGonnigill.'...'PS: He once had a hot d...”
