They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.

I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.

For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Dying is easy, it's living that scares me to death.

Death will be a great relief. No more interviews.

I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again.

I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.

I've told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation.

Those who have the strength and the love to sit with a dying patient in the silence that goes beyond words will know that this moment is neither frightening nor painful, but a peaceful cessation of the functioning of the body.