“For death begins with life's first breath, And life begins at touch of death.”

“Art thou lonely, O my brother?Share thy little with another!Stretch a hand to one unfriended,And the loneliness is ended.”

“At the end of life death is a departure; but at life's beginning a departure is death.”

“I once feared death. It is said that death begins with the absence of life. And life begins when death is no longer feared. I have stared death in the eye and survived.”

“Can death be sleep, when life is but a dream, And scenes of bliss pass as a phantom by?---"On death”

“Life is a disease, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end.”

“In a span of months she had present for birth and for death, the wondrous first breath and the horrible last. But wasn't it an honor to be there at the end of life as well as the beginning? To mark the extraordinariness of a lifetime, to bear witness to its completion?”