“I have decided not to die.”

“Love is one of two things worth dying for. I have yet to decide on the second.”

“Love is one of the two things worth dying for. I have yet to decide on the second. It is most certainly not colorful fungus.”

“In a belated moment of inspiration, I decided to finish it with the announcement that with this column I was bringing to a happy conclusion a long and worthy life without the sad necessity of having to die.”

“That's when I decided once and for all that we were doomed. It was that or I would die right there and then.”

“I have no will, unless it be the will never to decide. I have been so overwhelmed by the many storms that have broken over my head, that I am become passive in the hands of the Almighty, like a sparrow in the talons of an eagle. I live, because it is not ordained for me to die.”