1. The greatest dignity to be found in death is the dignity of the life that preceded it.
2. Good health doesn't guarantee anything, the wisest thing to do is to live everyday as though it will be our last.
3. There is always a dignity that proceeds from the life well-lived by preparing for the next world, and from the acceptance of one's own death.
4. Death makes more precious each hour of those we have been given, it demands that life must be useful and rewarding.
5. It is not in the last weeks or days that we compose the message that will be remembered, but in all the decades that preceded them.
6. Unique circumstances of death will be granted to someone with a unique personality.
7. The race of men is like the race of leaves. As one generation flourishes, another decays.
8. Death is easiest for those who during their lives have given it most thought, as though always to be prepared for its imminence.
9. It is possible to die resigned and reconciled, patiently and tranquilly, having experienced life more fully because of the constant awareness that life may soon come to an end.
10. The utility of living consists not in the length of days, but in the use of time, a man may have lived long, and yet lived but little. [How We Die, Dr. Sherman B. Nuland]
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