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To die well is the chief part of virtue.

GREEK PROVERB

A good death does honour to a whole life.

ITALIAN PROVERB

It is a great art to die well, and to be learned by those in health.

JEREMY TAYLOR, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Dying, 1651

Death can cause a human being to become what he or she was called to become; it can be, in the fullest sense of the word, an accomplishment.

FRANCOIS MITTERAND

Death, so far from being cruel, is an act of love rounding off our brief testing here.

ELIZABETH MYERS

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil.

JONATHAN SWIFT

Lord, grant that my last hour may be my best hour.

OLD ENGLISH PRAYER

If you would endure life, be prepared for death.

SIGMUND FREUD

Prepare for your death.

ST COLUMBA

When we are dead, and people weep for us and grieve, let it be because we touched their lives with beauty and simplicity.

JACOB P. RUDIN

Is there not a certain satisfaction in the fact that natural limits are set to the life of the individual, so that at the conclusion it may appear as a work of art?

ALBERT EINSTEIN

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Dying is like being stuck in a traffic jam.

There is a crown for those who endure.

ANON

Blessed be God for our sister, the death of the body.

ST FRANCIS OF ASSISI

Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

JOSEPH BAYLY

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Mortal loss is an Immortal gain.

The ruins of time builds Mansions in Eternity.

WILLIAM BLAKE