Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.