After a certain point, all natural bodily changes are for the worst.

Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.

Your relationship or marriage is dead or dying, if you almost always have to remind your partner to miss you (and/or they almost always have to remind you to miss them).

Not everyone who has killed themselves because they were HIV positive would have been killed by AIDS.

Some people are still alive only because they find being dead more boring than being alive.

You need to be greedy or ignorant to truly want to live forever.

Death is number one on the list of things that we wish were possible to leave behind when we escaped barbarism.

We the living are to blame for the painfulness of being dead.

Many a survivor of a plane crash who is or was against cannibalism and had never eaten human flesh once found themselves in a situation where they had to either eat human flesh, or go the way of all flesh.