You die as you've lived. If you were paranoid in life, you'll probably be paranoid when you're dying.

The death of a child is the single most traumatic event in medicine. To lose a child is to lose a piece of yourself.

You do not die all at once. Some tissues live on for minutes, even hours, giving still their little cellular shrieks, molecular echoes of the agony of the whole corpus.

It has been an enormous struggle over the last six months,

If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.

Death has a thousand doors to let out life: I shall find one