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" Death is a distant rumor to the young. "

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" I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first. "

Stephen Hawking

" Sometimes evil is in the form of a malignant clown, and sometimes evil is in the form of policy and legislators, and sometimes it's a grinning death mask and it has something more viscerally terrifying about it. "

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" Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death. "

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" For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium. "

" If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great man. "

" Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them. "

" Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. "

" Those who support the death penalty are accepting a practice that is both ineffective and fundamentally flawed. "

" Death may be the greatest of all human blessings. "

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" At the heart of Christian faith is the story of Jesus' death and resurrection. "

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" No evil is honorable: but death is honorable; therefore death is not evil. "

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" As the lawyer, I found most of it was a matter of research, which I was great at - that's what I did to death - and then basically persuading people that you're right, and they're wrong... I found that the easiest of all the professions to impersonate. "

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" Those who have the strength and the love to sit with a dying patient in the silence that goes beyond words will know that this moment is neither frightening nor painful, but a peaceful cessation of the functioning of the body. "

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