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1 " Sometimes I wonder if other people think about death - frequently, or just in general. I wonder if they think about it casually, like they’re thinking of the weather, or if they think of it lying awake at night, haunted by their own thoughts. I wonder… if they do think about it, do they ever think about their own death - the when, the how? "
― Courtney Carola , Where We Belong
2 " And who would dare write their own death into the script so that the rest of the characters in the tale might live? God of course. "
― Craig D. Lounsbrough , An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus
3 " It's only young people who make giant, life-altering decisions based on what other people might think, and it's because they don't see their own death looming. Their fear is, " Will my family, friends and lovers admire me?" whereas an older person's fear is that vision of themselves lying in a hospital bed, a breathing tube up their nose and the thought running through their heads, " Why didn't I at least try to do what I wanted to do, while I had the chance? "
