“If consciousness can function independently of the body during one's lifetime, it could be able to do the same after death.”
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“Dying before dying has two important consequences: It liberates the individual from the fear of death and influences the actual experience of dying at the time of biological demise.”
“A number of cases have been reported in which a dying individual has a vision of a person about whose death he or she did not know.”
“The drink? Yes, I've had tough times in my life, especially the last year, regarding my ex-wife, my kids, I nearly broke my neck, I was on death row with pneumonia.”
“Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.”
“I'm death obsessed. You know, I have death all over my house. I have a stuffed two headed sheep!”
“Since fame is an illusion and death is in our future all we have is the next moment before we are swallowed into oblivion.”
“Of course, we avoid death. To know something is inevitable is one thing. To accept, to truly feel it... that's different.”
“We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.”
“Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.”
“When I see someone who is starved, they don't look alert. They don't have boundless energy. If you're too skinny, it looks like you're near death.”
“People want the right to die at a time of their own choosing. Too many families have watched helplessly as a relative dies slowly, longing for death.”
“When I die, don't let my death stop the resistance.”
“It's a matter of life and death for this country. The Kenyan forests are facing extinction and it is a man-made problem.”
“It's something I want to overcome. And my kids are scared to death to fly. I want them to witness me overcome it.”
“Death by starvation is slow.”
“Libertarians know that a free country has nothing to fear from anyone coming in or going out - while a welfare state is scared to death of poor people coming in and rich people getting out.”
“Women have not yet realized the cowardice that resides, for if they should decide to do so, they would be able to fight you until death and to prove that I speak the truth, amongst so many women, I will be the first to act, setting an example for them to follow.”
“Sickness, insanity and death were the angels that surrounded my cradle and they have followed me throughout my life.”
“There are people who never experience that, who remain closed until death, from fear of change.”
“In this situation I was constantly exposed to danger and death.”
“We were then in a dangerous, helpless situation, exposed daily to perils and death amongst savages and wild beasts, not a white man in the country but ourselves.”
“I had always loved John Ford's pictures. And I came to love him, too, but I was frightened to death working for him. He used the shock treatment while directing me.”
“Hitchcock had to fight to the death to make his movies.”