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• The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• A violent man will die a violent death. -- Lao Tsu
• If death is as horrible as is claimed, how is it that after the passage of a certain period of time we consider happy any being, friend or enemy, who has ceased to live?
  -- E.M. Ciora...
• When dreaming stops, the time to die has arrived.
• Sighing that Nature form'd but one such man, And broke the die, in moulding Sheridan.
  -- Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Monody on the Death of Sheridan, Line 117...
• To be ordered to die is an expectation for any officer at any time.
  For a Klingon perhaps, but Riker's people do not volunteer for death so easily....
• Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike
  hey die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills....
• Death is every man's final critic. To die well you must live bravely. -- Edward Abbey