Of all the ways to lose a person, death is the kindest.

Death is never at a loss for occasions

The heaviness of loss in her heart hadn't eased, but there was room there for humour, too.

A person seldom falls sick, but the bystanders are animated with a faint hope that he will die.

Death is fugitive; even when you're watching for it, the actual instant somehow slips between your fingers. You don't get that sudden drop of the head you see in movies. Instead you simply sit there, waiting for something to happen, and all at once you realize you've missed it.

Done to death by slanderous tongues