Not everyone wants to live forever, but every culture has always desired immortality in one way or another. Humans have always believed in the possibility of another life, of a second act. We've also always hoped that there might be a way to avoid dying. The term "cultural-universal" is a complicated one, but I've heard it come up on numerous occasions while researching immortality.

I was never born, I didnt die.

Slowly, my brain let me in on the fact that I had just come this close to dying.

Kids are dying from causes of sexual activity. You're not going to find a tombstone stating that Frankie died because he was a virgin.

Curtain! Fast music! Light! Ready for the last finale! Great! The show looks good, the show looks good!

Hamas does not care about the lives of Palestinians. [They don't] care about the lives of Israelis or Americans. They don't care about their own lives. They consider dying for the sake of their ideology a way of worship.

Sometimes living takes more courage than dying.

Virtue alone has majesty in death.

Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire.

It has always been my belief that I, too, will die by violence. I have done all that I can to be prepared.