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Choosing Death Quotes

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Of all living things, only humans consciously anticipate death; the consequent need to choose how to behave in its face - to worry about how to die - distinguishes us from other animals. The need to manage death is the particular lot of humanity  (Choosing Death Quotes) Our creator says, ‘Here’s your birth and here’s your death’ - and the rest are the things you learn on your journey. This was my experience - and the choice is, I can lay in the misery, or choose to learn from it and move on  (Choosing Death Quotes) Puerto Ricans who find they can no longer afford to keep their pets often choose to drop their dogs, sometimes even whole litters of puppies, at a beach - sometimes under cover of night, in secret - rather than surrender the animal to a city or state-run shelter where the animals will face grim conditions and almost certain death by euthanasia.  (Choosing Death Quotes) We assume that we’ve come so far as compassionate citizens of the world if we do choose to read the news, yet the attitude towards life can be one where we put blinders on and forget that there are civil wars going on. It’s easy to forget that there are so many people starving to death every single day.  (Choosing Death Quotes) There is a very popular opinion that choosing life is inherently superior to choosing death. This belief that life isinherently preferable to death is one of the most widespread superstitions. This bias constitutes one of the most obstinate mythologies of the human species.  (Choosing Death Quotes) I think about death most of the day, every day. We can’t escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.  (Choosing Death Quotes) Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so I shall choose my death when I am about to depart from life.  (Choosing Death Quotes) I would like to live. . . open to time and death painlessly, noticing everything, remembering nothing, choosing the given with a fierce and pointed will.  (Choosing Death Quotes) Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death  (Choosing Death Quotes) I can choose to accelerate my disease to an alcoholic death or incurable insanity, or I can choose to live within my thoroughly human condition  (Choosing Death Quotes) We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind  (Choosing Death Quotes) People want the right to die at a time of their own choosing. Too many families have watched helplessly as a relative dies slowly, longing for death  (Choosing Death Quotes) It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world  (Choosing Death Quotes) It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses to take his own life first. In fact, this act has been encouraged for centuries, and is accepted even now as an honorable reason to do the deed. How is it any different when you are under attack by your own mind?  (Choosing Death Quotes) Bushido is realized in the presence of death. This means choosing death whenever there is a choice between life and death. There is no other reasoning  (Choosing Death Quotes)