“If one does die taking these drugs, the death is likely to be very peaceful. Morphia is, after all, the goddess of dreams.”

“When I die, this is the only gold that will go with me. What does one take after death? Just one's good deeds and the love of others.”

“Sacred dying rituals are primarily and notably for the person dying. It takes great strength and courage to face death and to begin to move through it to the other side. And it takes great courage for the survivors to put aside their own fears and anxieties to help their loved ones die a peaceful death.”

“The peace corps looks like peace corpse, and death isn’t a very peaceful thought to me.”

“One went on and on, never dreaming of the sudden dreadful day when the coverings were going to be dropped and one would see it was death after all, that it had been death all the time, death pretending, death waiting”

“He heard long ago, in a dream, that one day in every century Death takes on mortal flesh, better to comprehend what the lives she takes must feel like, to taste the bitter tang of mortality: that this is the price she must pay for being the divider of the living from all that has gone before, all that must come after.”