“Better dead than undead.”
“Once someone's dead you can't make them undead.”
“Whatever she is now she's better than she was," said Bedloe. "Being dead is better than being dull, being dead is better than not being aware.”
“Emma and I had both died twice, and for me, that second one actually stuck. Now I was a "resurrected American," better known, in colloquial terms, as life-challenged. Or undead. Or the living dead. But I'm not a zombie. I'm just a little less alive than your average high school junior.”
“any live man is better than any dead man but no live or dead man is very much better than any other live or dead man”
“The day of death is better than the day of birth, a live dog is better than a dead lion, and the grave is better than poverty.”