“I am not a fate worse than death, dammit!”
“I waved down a lit cab. He swerved dramatically towards me and stopped inches from my Louboutins. Shoe-icide, a fate worse than death”
“It's a fate worse than death to spend eternity in harness, serving as Lilly Hellman's zombie, brought back to life at dinner parties.”
“Fear of death is worse than death itself...”
“I can imagine few worse fates than walking around for the rest of one's life wearing a typo.”
“In the next world I could not be worse than I am in this.”