Writing never comes easy. The difference between Page 2 and Page Nothing is the difference between life and death.

The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows.

Death is the retirement from life.

When there's an emergency weather situation, the local broadcaster is the source of information that often makes the difference between life and death.

I came to understand the most intriguing irony of life, that the most intimate partner of life is death.
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If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.