Make a living will. Talk about it. Death is going to happen to everybody. Write it down. Even if you write it on a piece of paper at home and have your family witness it, you need to write it down.

If you think aficionados of a living Constitution want to bring you flexibility, think again. You think the death penalty is a good idea? Persuade your fellow citizens to adopt it. You want a right to abortion? Persuade your fellow citizens and enact it. That's flexibility.

Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject.

What is the value of sticking a microphone in a man's face right after he has learned of his wife's death?

Nothing is absolute, with the debatable exceptions of this statement and death.

Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land, drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows.

One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life.

We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep.

She goes through the vale of death alone, each time a babe is born. As it is the right neither of man nor the state to coerce her into this ordeal, so it is her right to decide whether she will endure it.

The death of JFK to the resignation of Richard Nixon marked a great turning point in American life.

A samurai should always be prepared for death - whether his own or someone else's.

Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.

'Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abolition of the penalty of death.