"I don't fear death" http://www.theguardian.com/music/2004/mar/15/popandrock1, The Guardian.com, March 15, 2004.
General Quotes
“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
“I don't want to die. Please don't let me die.”
Last words (mouthed). http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/03/07/heart-attack-killed-suffering-hugo-chavez-head-venezuela-presidential-guard/
2013
“I don't want problems solved for me. I want the fishing rod, not the fish.”
Yanni in Words. Miramax Books. Co-author David Rensin
Metropolis (1908)
Context: I'm going to stop squandering money for things I don't want. I'm going to stop accepting invitations, and meeting people I don't like and don't want to know. I've tried your game — I've tried it hard, and I don't like it; and I'm going to get out before it's too late. I'm going to find some decent and simple place to live in; and I'm going down town to find out if there isn't some way in New York for a man to earn an honest living!
“When I go let it be like James Dean, I don't want to die slow.”
From the song "James Dean" on the album Carwreck Conversations (2004)
“Don't tell me what I'm doing; I don't want to know.”
Responding to a press conference question as to whether he was a "card-carrying" member of the Black Muslims, as quoted in The New York Times (27 February 1964) http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F4091EF7355D17738DDDAE0A94DA405B848AF1D3; also in Sports Illustrated (9 March 1964).
Context: I believe in Allah and in peace. I don't try to move into white neighborhoods. I don't want to marry a white woman. I was baptized when I was twelve, but I didn't know what I was doing. I'm not a Christian anymore. I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be... I'm free to be what I want.
“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."
“I don't want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go.”
1989 interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LYL1PTrtXo with James Dobson
