In a world where everyone struggles to survive whatever the cost, how could one judge those who decide to die?

I think that, with age, people come to realize that death is inevitable. And we need to learn to face it with serenity, wisdom and resignation. Death often frees us from a lot of senseless sufferings.

to die tomorrow was no worse than dying on any other day. Every day was there to be lived or to mark one’s departure from this world.

Death is our constant companion, and it is death that gives each person's life its true meaning.

They say that in the second before our death, each of us understands the real reason for our existence, and out of that moment, heaven or hell is born.

She didn't struggle and so she didn't grow

We've replaced nearly all our emotions with fear

Once someone asked me, "What do you want to be your epitaph?" So I said, "Paulo Coelho died when he was alive.

Once the soul has left the body it had to walk across a bridge as narrow as a knife edge, with paradise on the right and, on the left, a series of circles that lead down into the darkness inside the earth. Before crossing the bridge, each person had to place all his virtues in his right hand and all his sins in his left, and the imbalance between the two meant that the person always fell towards the side to which his actions on Earth had inclined him.