In my sleep. In bed. With a half-eaten egg salad sandwich on my chest.
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Terry Pratchett
Novelist
I remember what George said and vowed that rather than let Alzheimer's take me, I would take it. I would live my life as ever to the full and die, before the disease mounted its last attack, in my own home, in a chair on the lawn, with a brandy in my hand to wash down whatever modern version of the "Brompton cocktail" some helpful medic could supply. And with Thomas Tallis on my iPod, I would shake hands with Death.
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Edited extract from the Richard Dimbleby Lecture, Shaking Hands With Death, Royal College of Physicians, broadcast on BBC1 on 1 February 2010, The Guardian, 2 February 2010
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Lily Tomlin
Comedian and actor
In my sleep, “dreaming android dreams of electric sheep.”
Terry Gross
Radio interviewer
Swiftly, painlessly, and old.
John Lewis
U.S. Representative from Georgia, 1987–2020; Chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee 1963–1966
I don't want to die. I don't think I'm going to die…but we all have to die. Since I do, I hope I live on in the hearts and minds of people.
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Devouring an egg salad sandwich with the salt, pepper, and mayo in exactly the right proportion.
Being on a Broadway stage and forgetting what the play is.
Deborah Divine.
Knowing they are there for you.
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