According to most studies, people's number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. Death is number two. Does read more

According to most studies, people's number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. Death is number two. Does that sound right? This means to the average person, if you go to a funeral, you're better off in the casket than doing the eulogy.

As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.

As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.

For death begins with life's first breath And life begins at touch of death

For death begins with life's first breath And life begins at touch of death

Since every death diminishes us a little, we grieve - not so much for the death as for ourselves

Since every death diminishes us a little, we grieve - not so much for the death as for ourselves

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are read more

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and read more

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I have not lived.

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

If you should die before me, ask if you could bring a friend

If you should die before me, ask if you could bring a friend

Death takes the good, too good to stay, And leaves the bad, too bad to take away

Death takes the good, too good to stay, And leaves the bad, too bad to take away