It always comes down to just two choices. Get busy living, or get busy dying.

Whatever. As far as I can see, there is one state of dead and that’s ‘not living.’ Now, do you have anything useful to add to this investigation or not?”

It always comes down to just two choices. Get busy living or get busy dying.

Death is a stage in human progress, to be passed as we would pass from childhood to youth, or from youth to manhood, and with the same consciousness of an everlasting nature.

I mean, they say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time.

"The four stages of acceptance:
1. This is worthless nonsense.
2. This is an interesting, but perverse, point of view.
3. This is true, but quite unimportant.
4. I always said so."

(Review of The Truth About Death, in: Journal of Genetics 1963, Vol. 58, p.464)

One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life.

You are either alive and proud or you are dead, and when you are dead, you can’t care anyway.

Get busy living or get busy dying.....there ain't nothing inbetween

When you're dead you're dead.

My husband is already dead. He only needs to stop breathing to make it official.

However many ways there may be of being alive, it is certain that there are vastly more ways of being dead.

Death is just the last scene of the last act.

Life is for the living.
Death is for the dead.
Let life be like music.
And death a note unsaid.