“Life-and-death. Lifedeath. One event. One short event. Don’t forget.”
All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (1986)
“Still, no matter how commonplace, one’s death is the most interesting event of one’s life.”
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Robert Sheckley
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Immortality, Inc.
Source: Immortality, Inc. (1959), Chapter 1 (p. 1)
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