“It's not that I'm afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.”
" Death (A Play) http://books.google.com/books?id=qjRaAAAAMAAJ&q=%22It's+not+that+I'm+afraid+to+die+I+just+don't+want+to+be+there+when+it+happens%22&pg=PA99#v=onepage".
Without Feathers (1975)
Variant: I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.
“I just don't want them to change me, if I'm going to die I still want to be me.”
Variant: They don't own me. If I'm gonna die, I wanna still be me.
Source: The Hunger Games
2006-02-09
Using a Funeral to Make Political Points
The O'Reilly Factor
Fox News
Television
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,184331,00.html
In response to civil rights leader Coretta Scott King's funeral.
Source: Kinski Uncut : The Autobiography of Klaus Kinski (1996), p. 42
“I don't know what happens when I die, and I don't care.”
Interview with The Atlantic http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/01/bill-maher-on-masturbation-and-national-security/283266/ (24 January 2014)
“I'm afraid to live and afraid to die.”
Source: Go Ask Alice
In Bitter American Exile, the Shah's Twin Sister, Ashraf, Defends Their Dynasty (1980)
“I just don't want to die without a few scars.”
Variant: I don't want to die without any scars.
Source: Fight Club
“Please — please don't kill me — I don't want to die. I just want to have my baby.”
Court testimony of Virginia Graham as to what her confessed murderer Susan Atkins (aka Sadie Mae Glutz) had said were among her last words (9 August 1969). Atkins said she responded to this with: "Look, bitch, you might as well face it right now, you're going to die, and I don't feel a thing behind it."
