“I would just like to draw attention to everyone reading the above that this should be interpreted as 'I am not dead'. I will, of course, be dead at some future point, as will everybody else.”

“My name is Katniss Everdeen.
Why am I not dead?
I should be dead.”

“To my son,

If you are reading this letter, then I am dead.”

““I love reading manga!!” “I really, really love drawing them too!!” “I draw therefore I am!!” “This is proof that I exist!! I’m satisfied with just that!!!” The point is I’m a manga idiot.”

“Valkyrie, I hate to be the one to tell you this, but your friend is most likely dead.”
“Of course he’s dead. He’s a skeleton.”

“I am dead: dead, but in the Elysian fields.”

“I would rather be dead than singing Satisfaction when I am 45.”

“The past was gone, the dead were dead and did not speak, and everybody dies; one day Oberg would be dead and silent, too, and that was as it should be: the broad and welcoming ocean of oblivion. It made life bearable. It was sacred. It should not be tampered with.”

“I've never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure.”

“It wasn't even a good note. 'If you are reading this I am probably dead.' What sort of a note is that?”