'Maybe,' said Grimma. 'Perhaps. But he won't be able to answer you, because he's dead.' (Truck)
'Can he hear me?' said Gurder.
'Maybe,' said Grimma. 'Perhaps. But he won't be able to answer you, because he's dead.' (Truck)
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'He says he's dyin', I suppose he should know.'
'Dying of what?' said Masklin. Dyin' of bein' alive for such a long time,' said Granny. (Truck) Death was Nature's way of telling you to slow down. (Strata)
'Millions of people will die!’
‘But only once, you see. That’s what makes it wonderful. And after that, no more death!' (W) YOU ARE HAVING A NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCE, WHICH INESCAPABLY MEANS THAT I MUST UNDERGO A NEAR VIMES EXPERIENCE . (Th)
'He’s dead. However, credit where it’s due, he hasn’t let that stop him.' (MR)
A certain realization dawned on him.
‘Oh,’ he said. YES, said Death. ‘Not even time to finish my cake?’ NO. THERE IS NO MORE TIME, EVEN FOR CAKE. FOR YOU, THE CAKE IS OVER. YOU HAVE REACHED THE END OF CAKE. (NW) 'What did you say?’
‘I said it’s uncertain death.’ ‘Is that worse than certain death.’ ‘Much.' (TOT) 'In the olden days,’ she said, ‘when a hero had been really heroic, the gods would put them up in the stars.’
THE HEAVENS CHANGE, said Death. WHAT TODAY LOOKS LIKE A MIGHTY HUNTER MAY LOOK LIKE A TEACUP IN A HUNDRED YEARS’ TIME. ‘That doesn’t seem fair.’ NO ONE EVER SAID IT HAD TO BE. BUT THERE ARE OTHER STARS. (LH) 'Ah, well, life goes on,’ people say when someone dies. But from the point of view of the person who has just died, it doesn’t. It’s the universe that goes on. (LH)
Mr. Tulip raised a trembling hand. ‘Is this the bit where my whole life passes in front of my eyes?’ he said.
NO, THAT WAS THE BIT JUST NOW. ‘Which bit?’ THE BIT, said Death, BETWEEN YOU BEING BORN AND YOU DYING. NO, THIS ... MR. TULIP, THIS IS YOUR WHOLE LIFE AS IT PASSED BEFORE OTHER PEOPLE’S EYES ... (TT) Goodmountain grinned. ‘Don’t worry too much about your father, lad. People change. My grandmother used to think humans were sort of hairless bears. She doesn’t anymore.’
‘What changed her mind?’ ‘I reckon it was the dying that did it.' (TT) 'Remember - that which does not kill us can only make us stronger.’
‘And that which does kill us leaves us dead!' (CJ) I AM DEATH, NOT TAXES. I TURN UP ONLY ONCE. (FC)
'Down in Klatch they believe if you lead a good life you’re rewarded by being sent to a paradise with lots of young women.’
‘That’s your reward, is it?’ ‘Dunno. Maybe it’s their punishment.' (IT) Susan stared at him.
The blue glow in Death’s eyes gradually faded, and as the light died it sucked at her gaze so that it was dragged into the eye sockets and the darkness beyond... ...which went on and on, forever. There was no word for it. Even eternity was a human idea. Giving it a name gave it a length; admittedly, a very long one. But this darkness was what was left when eternity had given up. It was where Death lived. Alone. (SM) That was the thing about death. When it happened to you, you were among the first to know. (MA)
'I call it highly suspicious, being dead like that. He’s been drinking, too. We could do him for being dead and disorderly.' (TOC)
It was a fine summer morning, the kind to make a man happy to be alive. And probably the man would have been
happier to be alive. He was, in fact, dead. It would be hard to be deader without special training. (TOC) 'But look,’ said Ponder, ‘the graveyards are full of people who rushed in bravely but unwisely.’
‘Ook.’ ‘What’d he say?’ said the Bursar, passing briefly through reality on his way somewhere else. ‘I think he said, “Sooner or later the graveyards are full of everybody”,’ said Ponder. (LL) There are no delusions for the dead. Dying is like waking up after a really good party, when you have one or two seconds of innocent freedom before you recollect all the things you did last night which seemed so logical and hilarious at the time, and then you remember the really amazing thing you did with a lampshade and two balloons, which had them in stitches, and now realize you’re going to have to look at lot of people in the eye today and you’re sober now and so are they but you can both remember (LL)
Death paused. YOU HAVE PERHAPS HEARD THE PHRASE, he said, THAT HELL IS OTHER PEOPLE?
‘Yes. Yes, of course.’ Death nodded. IN TIME, he said, YOU WILL LEARN THAT IT IS WRONG. (SG) The Captain frowned. ‘It’s a funny thing,’ he said, ‘but why is it that the heathens and the barbarians seem to have the best places to go when they die?’
‘A bit of a poser, that,’ agreed the mate. ‘I s’pose it makes up for ‘em ... enjoying themselves all the time when they’re alive, too?’ He looked puzzled. Now that he was dead, the whole thing sounded suspicious. (SG) 'Yeah, it’s always the same,’ said Reg Shoe bitterly. ‘Once you’re dead, people just don’t want to know, right? They act as if you’ve got some horrible disease. Dying can happen to anyone, right?' (RM)
They said that dying was just like going to sleep, although of course if you weren’t careful bits of you could rot and drop off (RM)
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