“I steeled myself against laughter; I would rather die than laugh. I didn’t laugh, I did not laugh. But I died, I did die.”
“Gentlemen, why do you not laugh? With the fearful strain that is upon me day and night, if I did not laugh, I should die. ”
“I pray, before I die, that I receive the power to believe in fairytales again, Oh' how I would love to laugh and know that God laughed with me.”
“And I laughed so hard I think I died”
“When I die, I plan to be laughing hysterically.”
“I should prefer to die laughing, and, on more than one occasion, thought I might.”