It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

—Joseph Stalin

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Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili; 18 December 1878 – 5 March 1953) was a Soviet politician and revolutionary who led the Soviet Union from the late 1920s until his death in 1953, holding the title of General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from...

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A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.

—Joseph Stalin

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When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

—Johnny Carson

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

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I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

—Isaac Asimov

Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

—Hugh Elliott

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Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

—Hugh Elliott

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