"Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated." ~ Mark Twain (1835 - 1910) U.S. novelist, journalist, river pilot Cable to the Associated Press on learning that his obituary had been published.

"A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds." ~ John Berger (1926 - ) English art critic, novelist, painter and author.

"Live so that when the final summons comes you will leave something more behind you than an epitaph on a tombstone or an obituary in a newspaper." ~ William Ashley 'Billy' Sunday (1862-1935) American Evangelist

"...After all, to the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure. You know, the Stone was not such a wonderful thing. As much money and life as you could want! The two things most human beings would choose above all -- the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them." ~ Spoken by the character Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.” ~ Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790