Do you really think anyone needs some kind of notarized statement saying
'Dear Saint Peter, here's another stiff, pass him through the gates, signed, Father McGonnigill.'...'PS: He once had a hot dog on a Friday, but don't hold that against him.'

Sensei says funerals are not really for the dead. They are for those left behind. "The dead are long gone by the time a funeral is held," he told us. "Who would wait when the doors of Heaven are open? Only the living would be foolish enough to still hang around on earth.

The reason so many people turned up at his funeral is that they wanted to make sure he was dead.

It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.

Fame and fortune are as hard to find as a lightning strike.

All say, how hard it is that we have to die - a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live