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• A fate worse than death: to be married alive.
• Immortality -- a fate worse than death. -- Edgar A. Shoaff
• Oh what a fate worse than death it is to be strapped to the back of a Wookiee! -- C-3PO
• Kamin's Fourth Law Government inflation is always worse than statistics indicate
  central bankers are biased toward inflation when the money unit is non-convertible, and without gold or silver backing....
• Professor Plum: "What are you afraid of? A fate worse than death?
  Mrs Peacock: "No, just death." -- _Clue_...
• Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.