He'd been wrong, there was a light at the end of the tunnel, and it was a flamethrower.

DON'T THINK OF IT AS DYING, said Death. JUST THINK OF IT AS LEAVING EARLY TO AVOID THE RUSH.

We who think we are about to die will laugh at anything.

YOU'RE ONLY PUTTING OFF THE INEVITABLE, he said.
That's what being alive is all about.

It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life.

It struck Mort with sudden, terrible poignancy that Death must be the loneliest creature in the universe. In the great party of Creation, he was always in the kitchen.