"I said to myself, 'I want to die decently'."

Mortality, Death, Dignity, Choice, Life

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"I said to myself, 'I want to die decently'."

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"There is no conclusive evidence of life after death, but there is no evidence of any sort against it. Soon enough you will know, so why fret about it?"

Robert A. Heinlein, American Writer

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"Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly."

Elbert Hubbard, American Writer

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"We're going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones."

Richard Dawkins, English Scientist

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"Alive ridiculous and dead forgot?"

Alexander Pope, English Poet

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"Among the tortures and devastations of life is this then-our friends are not able to finish their stories."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"He was going to die soon, you knew when you saw those eyes. There was no sign of life in his flesh, just the barest traces of what had once been a life. His body was like a dilapidated old house from which all furniture and fixtures have been removed and which awaited now only its final demolition."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

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"Are-you dying?" she asked."Just can't breathe. This air.""Poor, poor-good lord. I've forgotten your name.""Hell of a thing.""Barney!"He clutched her."No! Don't stop!" She arched her back. Her teeth chattered."I wasn't going to," he said. "Oooaugh!"He laughed."Don't please laugh at me.""Not meant unkindly."A long silence, then. Then, "Oof."

Philip K. Dick, American Writer

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"Sleeping is terrifying.When you close your eyes and surrender your consciousness to the void, you lose yourself-voluntarily-and you're trustingly assuming you'll find yourself back out of the labyrinth again.Usually you do.But sometimes you don't.It's that uncertainty, more than anything, which kills me. That I might not wake up, and wouldn't know it.That I could be dead, dreaming I'm alive."

Nenia Campbell, Swedish Musician

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"I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it."

Jean-Paul Sartre, French Philosopher

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"Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one's heart; but death is a splendid thing-a warfare accomplished, a beginning all over again, a triumph. You can always see that in their faces."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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"I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it."

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"Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees."

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"We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact."

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"It is the reflection of my face. Often in these lost days I study it: I can understand nothing of this face. The faces of others have some sense, some direction. Not mine. I cannot even decide whether it is handsome or ugly. I think it is ugly because I have been told so. But it doesn't strike me. At heart, I am even shocked that anyone can attribute qualities of this kind to it, as if you called a clod of earth or a block of stone beautiful or ugly."

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"I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be."

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"With older people, it's quite different. They're reliable, they show you what to do, and there's solidity in their affection."

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"But I can't see anything any more: however much I search the past I can only retrieve scraps of images and I am not sure what they represent, nor whether they are remembered or invented."

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"Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them."

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"My odd feelings of the other week seem to me quite ridiculous today: I can no longer enter into them."

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"Love or hatred calls for self-surrender. He cuts a fine figure, the warm-blooded, prosperous man, solidly entrenched in his well-being, who one fine day surrenders all to love-or to hatred; himself, his house, his land, his memories."

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