Death Circumstances Quotes

I am not afraid of death, but would not want to die in some obscure or pointless way.

New book on Malcolm X says we don't know how he was killed. Want to bring in the FBI. Maybe they were in already.

While the question of who killed President Kennedy is important, the question 'what killed him' is more important.

If Christ can die in a barn, I think the death of a human in a van is not so bad.

Trump said that he hoped bin Laden suffered a lot. It looks like he got his wish, because the CIA said bin Laden spent his last hour watching 'Celebrity Apprentice.'

And it is a great thing to die in your own bed, though it is better still to die in your boots.

Of death, my father has always said that the best conditions are the ones in which you have plenty of time to prepare - to say what you need to say; to arrange your estate - and the ones in which you get to choose, or at least have some knowledge of, how and when it might happen. One can't elude death, but one can have a good death.

I am reconciled to my death, but I detest the mode.

We died like aunts of pets or foreigners.

You hear about things happening to people - they slip in the bathtub, fall down the stairs, step off the curb in London because they think that the cars come the other way - and they die. You feel you want to die making an effort at something; you don't want to die in some unnecessary way.

We have to keep in mind that it's not just about the numbers of people who died; it's also the manner which many of these victims met their deaths.

None of us really either know the circumstances of our death or are likely to exert as much control over it as we would like to, but we can certainly have a little more say in it if we are terminally ill than we have at the moment. That's the element of dignity, but sure, life is very hard to organise even when you are fit and healthy.

My dear old friend King George V told me he would never have died but for that vile doctor, Lord Dawson of Penn.