“I support the protection of life from conception to natural death. But a natural death for a murderer is a death on the gallows.”

“Death is part of nature, but even nature does not seem to be free from the laws of decay.”

“A people is not led according to its will; the democratic formula; nor according to the will of one individual: the dictatorial formula. But according to laws. I do not talk here of man-made laws. There are norms, natural laws of life; and there are norms, natural laws of death. Laws of life and laws of death. A nation is headed for life or death according to its respect for one or the other of these laws.”

“Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.”

“Death is not the end of life. It is an aspect of life. It is a natural incident in the course of life. It is necessary for your evolution.”

“It’s not contagious, you know. Death is as natural as life. It’s part of the deal we made.”

“Death, like generation, is a secret of Nature.”

“Death is nature’s way of staying in charge.”

“In the place, then, of death's ending us, — death, but one item in the being of the natural world, the whole of which is conditioned upon our central self-consciousness,—we arrive at the settled and logically immovable conception that we are ourselves the changeless ground of that transition in experience into which death thus gets interpreted.”

“Natural or not, the death of the body is certain and guaranteed to all.”