I can’t forgive my friends for dying. I don’t find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing. ~ Logan Pearsall Smith, The Sun, 2/06

The dead carry with them to the grave in their clutched hands only that which they have given away. ~ Dewitt Wallace

Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life. ~ Bertolt Brecht, The Mother

There's a magical part of it (writing obituaries), too, which is you're trying to breathe life back into someone who has just died. You're trying to conjure them up. ~ Marilyn Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 5/28/06

You can have money stacked to the ceiling, but the size of your funeral is still going to depend upon the weather. ~ Chuck Tanner

Almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. ~ Steve Jobs, Stanford, 6/12/05

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject. ~ Hannah Arendt

The fact that we die, that makes life important. It’s hard to take, but it’s the truth. ~ Alan Ball

I don't fear death. ~ Benazir Bhutto

As long as someone thinks of you and remembers you, you’re not really gone. ~ Jeanine M. Waterman

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