It's an incredible con job when you think about it to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don't try to make it posthumous.

There is no harm in patience and no profit in lamentation. Death is easier to bear (than) that which precedes it and more severe than that which comes after it. Remember the death of the Apostle of God and your sorrow will be lessened.

For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.

It's just as idiotic to say there is no life after death as it is to say there is one.

Death is the easiest of all things after it and the hardest of all things before it.

The meaning of life is not to be discovered only after death in some hidden mysterious realm on the contrary it can be found by eating the succulent fruit of the Tree of Life and by living in the here and now as fully and creatively as we can.

Families survive one way or another. You have a tie a connection that exists long after death through many lifetimes.

Andrew Wood's death changed things for a few weeks. I probably got even heavier into drugs after that.

After the writer's death reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.

The ideal death I think is what was the ideal Victorian death you know with your grandchildren around you a bit of sobbing. And you say goodbye to your loved ones making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.