Farewells

"Man is the only animal that contemplates death, and also the only animal that shows any doubt of its finality." -- William Ernest Hocking.

Everyone thinks about death from time to time, even if no one really expects it to happen to them. In this book you'll find a wide-ranging collection of quotations about death, spoken or written by the famous, the near-famous or the not-so-famous. For example:

"I am dying, with the help of many doctors." --Alexander the Great.

"I did not get my spaghetti. I got Spaghetti-Os. I want the press to know this." -- Condemned murderer Thomas Grasso, referring to his last meal.

"In heaven all the interesting people are missing." -- Philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche.