Since fame is an illusion and death is in our future all we have is the next moment before we are swallowed into oblivion.

I'm death obsessed. You know I have death all over my house. I have a stuffed two headed sheep!

Though I am a Catholic a professing one I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.

The drink? Yes I've had tough times in my life especially the last year regarding my ex-wife my kids I nearly broke my neck I was on death row with pneumonia.

A number of cases have been reported in which a dying individual has a vision of a person about whose death he or she did not know.

Dying before dying has two important consequences: It liberates the individual from the fear of death and influences the actual experience of dying at the time of biological demise.

If consciousness can function independently of the body during one's lifetime it could be able to do the same after death.

Individuals approaching death often experience encounters with their dead relatives who seem to welcome them to the next world. These deathbed visions are authentic and convincing they are often followed by a state of euphoria and seem to ease the transition.

Research challenges the materialistic understanding of death according to which biological death represents the final end of existence and of all conscious activity.

The elimination of the fear of death transforms the individual's way of being in the world.

The experiences associated with death were seen as visits to important dimensions of reality that deserved to be experienced studied and carefully mapped.

The knowledge of the realm of death makes it possible for the shaman to move freely back and forth and mediate these journeys for other people.

The materialistic paradigm of Western science has been a major obstacle for any objective evaluation of the data describing the events occurring at the time of death.

The motif of death plays an important role the human psyche in connection with archetypal and karmic material.

The study of consciousness that can extend beyond the body is extremely important for the issue of survival since it is this part of human personality that would be likely to survive death.

For any culture which is primarily concerned with meaning the study of death - the only certainty that life holds for us - must be central for an understanding of death is the key to liberation in life.

Of all the artists on Death Row none of them went bankrupt.

I think that the core doctrines of Christianity - the incarnation the resurrection life after death-these are as strong as ever. In fact the belief in life after death has increased in this century.

I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death.

Everything that is necessary is also easy. You just have to accept it. And the most necessary the most natural matter on this planet is death.

We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven.

Why would you be afraid of death? It would be an inconvenience. I have a lot of undone things and it's bound to get in the way. But no it doesn't scare me at all.

More than 100 people have been sent to death row who were later exonerated because they weren't guilty or fairly tried. Most criminal defendants do not get adequate representation because there are not enough public defenders to represent them. There is a lot that is wrong.

My faith isn't very churchy it's a pretty personal intimate thing and has been a huge source of strength in moments of life and death.