I'm not dead.
A dim realization but an important one, because I should have died.

In the foreseeable future, I will be a dead person. I want to remind you that dead people are people too. There are good dead people and bad dead people. Some of my best friends are dead people. Dead people have fought in every war.” Then

I wasn't really dead.

Death is not the end.

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

'You're not going to die, are you sir?' he said.
'Of course I am. Everyone is. That's what being alive is all about.'

I am not ill. But do not worry, one day, I will certainly die.

Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire.

You say you’re a mortician? You should know better than anyone. Just because you’re not dead doesn’t mean you’re alive.

Glenn used to say the reason you can't really imagine yourself being dead was that as soon as you say, 'I'll be dead,' you've said the word I, and so you're still alive inside the sentence. And that's how people got the idea of the immortality of the soul - it was a consequence of grammar.

I shall die, but I will not kill.

None of us will live our whole lives. One day I will die too. Various stories will be made about me in the media. News will be made about that story. I will not exist after death. I will be on the other side. I can't even protest. So I want to come live and tell the truth while I'm still alive.

But it struck him that people are not really dead until they are felt to be dead. As long as there is some misunderstanding about them, they possess a sort of immortality.

As long as they talk about you, you're not really dead, as long as they speak your name, you continue. A legend doesn't die, just because the man dies.