“Pestis eram vivus… moriens tua mors ero - "Living, I was your plague… dying, I shall be your death.”
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Quoted in Richard Ellman A Long the Riverrun: Selected Essays (1988), p. 253

“Before I became old I tried to live well; now that I am old, I shall try to die well; but dying well means dying gladly.”
Ante senectutem curavi ut bene viverem, in senectute ut bene moriar; bene autem mori est libenter mori.
Source: Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter LXI: On meeting death cheerfully, Line 2.

“I am still in the land of the dying; I shall be in the land of the living soon. (his last words)”

The Tower of Learning
Song lyrics, Poses (2001)
“Someone dying asks if there is life after death. Yes, comes the answer, only not yours.”

Prelude, Stanza 1.
Departmental Ditties and other Verses (1886)