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" Working with the dying is like being a midwife for this great rite of passage of death. Just as a midwife helps a being take their first breath, you help a being take their last breath. "

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" Jesus' sinless life was given as a gift to the world - the ultimate gift. Some would receive Him, and others wouldn't. Nonetheless, He continues to be our gift, and His life and death makes it possible for His children to receive eternal life with Him. That's a reason to give God glory. "

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" Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee. "

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" Any man who has $10,000 left when he dies is a failure. "

" Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you. "

" I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so. "

" You can't please everyone, and trying to is the kiss of death. I don't care about Wayne Newton's demographics. When I do, I'll know that it's time to quit. "

" 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. "

" Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable. "

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

" Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent. "

" He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world. "

" I enjoy every climb - maybe it's because it's a literal dance between life and death. "

" But I'm not pro death penalty. I - I'm just anti the notion that it is not a matter for democratic choice, that it has been taken away from the democratic choice of the people by a provision of the Constitution. "

" Death is just life's next big adventure. "

" So many people seem to prefer my silver-screenings of movie stars to the rest of my work. It must be the subject matter that attracts them, because my death and violence paintings are just as good. "

" Death is the cure for all diseases. "

" Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it. "

" There's never been a doctor who served many patients who, despite their best efforts, did not lose some of them to death. But they understood that was part of life itself. "

" Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live. "

" In Hinduism, Shiva is a deity who represents transformation. Through destruction and restoration, Shiva reminds us that endings are beginnings, and that our world is constantly undergoing a cycle of birth, death and rebirth. "

" Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other. "

" We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us. "

" Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life. "

" Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time. "

" Death can never kill an idea. Ideas are more powerful than death. Ideas outlive men and can never be destroyed. "

" But for me, it is when a student has died. I find the death of a young person the most difficult and painful of times. To explain it to other young people, to see a bright future snuffed out, is just awful. I am haunted by those deaths. "

" Disease generally begins that equality which death completes. "

" I've worked in the prison system, on death row and maximum security. I did that work for six years. I've worked with some of the most difficult people in our society. Buddhism was accessible and helpful for these individuals. "

" Death obsesses me, yes it does. I can't really understand why it doesn't obsess everyone - I think it does really, I'm just a little more out about it. "

" Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity. "