I always say that death can be one of the greatest experiences ever. If you live each day of your life right, then you have nothing to fear.

It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth - and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up, we will then begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.

We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear.

Those who learned to know death, rather than to fear and fight it, become our teachers about life.

For those who seek to understand it, death is a highly creative force. The highest spiritual values of life can originate from the thought and study of death.

I've told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation.