"Death: a permanent cessation of all vital functions : the end of life. Etymology: Middle English deeth, from Old English death; akin to Old Norse dauthi death, deyja to die Date: before 12th century" merriam-webster.com

"We can live intensely only if we stare death in the face every moment of our lives." Martin Heidegger (Philosopher)

"Live as you will have wished to have lived when you are dying." Christian Furchtegott Gellert

"To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven; A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck that which is planted." Bible - Ecclesiastes 3:1

"Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me.  That signifies nothing.  For us believing physicists the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion." Albert Einstein