Death with honor is better than a life of degradation.

It must be good to die in the knowledge that one has done some truthful work...and to know that, as a result, one will live on in the memory of at least a few and leave a good example for those who come after.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

Un bel morir tutta la vita honora.

A beautiful death is for people who lived like animals to die like angels — loved and wanted.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Just as a well-filled day brings blessed sleep, so a well-employed life brings a blessed death.

Just as a well-filled day brings blessed sleep, so a well-employed life brings a blessed death.

A good death. Well, he thought, given that you had to die, why want a bad one?

Surely it was a good way to die, in the place of someone else, someone I loved.

With a mind not diseased, a holy life is a life of hope; and at the end of it, death is a great act of hope.

Just as a well-filled day brings blessed sleep, so a well-employed life brings a blessed death

For a perfect contempt of the world, a fervent desire to excel in virtue, the love of discipline, the painfulness of repentance, readiness to obey, denial of self, submission to any adversity for love of Christ; these are the things which shall give great confidence of a happy death. Whilst thou art in health thou hast many opportunities of good works; but when thou art in sickness I know not how much thou wilt be able to do.