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Friday 10th of July 2026

By the numbers [T]he odds of being killed by an immigrant terrorist of any kind, let alone a Muslim immigrant, are one in 3.6 million. Vox.com, October 27, 2019 © 2019 Kwiple.com
Death After World War II, law and the churches supported the doctors in the medicalisation of death. … Agony came to be seen as the effort of a medical team, and death as the team's frustration by an ultimate act of consumer resistance. Ivan Illich, “Death Undefeated” © 2018 Kwiple.com
Death  Cemeteries are full of irreplaceable people. Sign on Henry Rosovsky's desk [Often attributed to Vartan Gregorian, who quoted it in his memoir, The Road to Home ] © 2021 Kwiple.com
Death Covid-19 has left the same proportion of the population dead — about 0.3% — as did World War II, and in less time. … One study, published in the scientific journal PLOS One last September estimates that roughly 7.4 million years of life were lost in the U.S. in 2020 alone, with 73% of them attributable directly to Covid-19. … There are fears these losses will be forgotten on a broad scale, beyond those directly affected. Wall Street Journal, January 31, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Death The dead don't die. They live on and help. D. H. Lawrence © 2016 Kwiple.com
Death Death has has got something to be said for it: There's no need to get out of bed for it; Wherever you may be, They bring it to you, free. Kingsley Amis, “Delivery Guaranteed” © 2016 Kwiple.com
Death Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war. Donald Rumsfeld © 2016 Kwiple.com
Death Death is not the end. There remains litigation over the estate. Ambrose Bierce © 2015 Kwiple.com
Death Falling life expectancy is the last thing you would expect on a worry list about US national security. Yet when it is dropping as fast as it is in the US — Americans live almost five years less than the wealthy country average — even the Pentagon has to sit up. At 76, Americans now live shorter lives than their peers in China and only a year  longer than the citizens of supposedly benighted Mexico. People in Japan, Italy and Spain, on the other hand, can expect to live to around 84. Your people’s longevity is the ultimate test of a system’s ability to deliver. Yet neither Democrats nor Republicans, presidents or legislators, seem too bothered. Edward Luce, Financial Times, September 8, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Death Farmer Bill Dies In House headline, Atlanta Constitution, April 13, 1978 © 2016 Kwiple.com
Death Gee, I hope this works. Fred Chamberlain's last words before being frozen in the hope that someday he can be thawed and revived. Quoted in National Geographic, April 2016 © 2016 Kwiple.com
Death God will pardon me. That's his line of work. Last words of Heinrich Heine © 2024 Kwiple.com
Death Q: A:  How would you like to die? Surrounded by enemies, holding a grenade. Bill Maher, Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, May, 2010  © 2015 Kwiple.com
Death I am about to — or I am going to — die. Either expression is correct. Last words of grammarian Dominique Bonhours © 2024 Kwiple.com
Death I miss my mother and father and grandfather. That feeling continues for all time, even at 100. Most people do. Captain Tom Moore, the 100-year old Briton knighted for raising more than ￡33m for Britain's National Health Service by walking laps in his garden  © 2020 Kwiple.com
Death I pray — for word is out And prayer comes round again — That I may seem, though I die old, A foolish, passionate man. William Butler Yeats, “A Prayer For Old Age”  © 2015 Kwiple.com
Death If I should die, think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field That is for ever England. Rupert Brooke, “The Soldier” © 2015 Kwiple.com
Death If I were to shoot you on either side of your heart, one shot . . . and then another, you'd have two punctured lungs, two sucking chest wounds. Now you'e good and fucked. But you'll still be alive long enough to feel your lungs fill up with blood. If I shoot you there with the shots coming fast, it's no problem. The ripples tear up your heart and lungs and you don't do the death rattle, you just die. There's shock, but no pain. Phil Klay, “Redeployment” © 2016 Kwiple.com
Death In our atomized world, death is far more shocking for us because we cannot imagine anything beyond this self, this life. Seamus O'Mahony, The Way We Die Now © 2018 Kwiple.com
Death It was possible to insist on the corruption of the dead body, and the dishonour of its begetting, while there was a living belief in the incorruption and the glory of the immortal part. But in England, at any rate, the belief in the future life as taught in Christian doctrine, is very uncommon today even in the minority who make church-going or prayer a consistent part of their lives; and without some such belief natural death and physical decomposition have become too horrible to contemplate or to discuss. Geoffrey Gorer, “The Pornography of Death” © 2018 Kwiple.com
Death Lfie is a hospice, never a hospital. Alain de Botton, New York Times, March 19, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Death The man who dies thus rich dies disgraced. Andrew Carnegie, “Wealth” © 2018 Kwiple.com
Death More than 1m people around the world die each year from infections linked to microbes resistant to antibiotics, according to a study that estimates the scale of a "silent pandemic" that is now more deadly than malaria or HIV. … Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has been described by experts as one of the greatest  threats to public health in the 21st century. The figures underscore the dangers of bacteria developing resistance to existing antibiotics as a result of overuse — including during the Covid-19 pandemic — against a backdrop of scant new vaccines and drugs under development to prevent or treat infections. Financial Times, January 19, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Death Mortality rates in recent years have been increasing for all whites, in contrast to decreases in the rest of the world. At the same time, it is worth noting that mortality rates for African Americans remain higher than for whites. Adverse economics is bad for health, regardless of race. Joseph Stiglitz, People, Power and Profits © 2019 Kwiple.com
Death ‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens  headline, The Onion, February 14, 2018, following the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida © 2018 Kwiple.com
Death One death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic. attributed to Joseph Stalin © 2019 Kwiple.com
Death One of the biggest worldwide public health triumphs in recent years has been maternal mortality. Global death rates fell by more than a third from 2000 to 2015. The United States, however, is one of the few countries in the world that have gone against the grain, new data show. Its maternal mortality rate has risen despite improvements in health care and an overwhelming global trend in the other direction. New York Times, September 22, 2016 © 2016 Kwiple.com
Death Our problem with death is that, compared to our ancestors, we live so long. Seamus O'Mahony, The Way We Die Now © 2018 Kwiple.com
Death Ralph, you're probably going to get killed, so it's best to accept it. You'll get along much better. Curtis LeMay, to a pilot who confessed fears about LeMay's plan for low-level firebombing attacks on Tokyo without knowing about Japan's air defenses © 2021 Kwiple.com
Death A recent survey carried out on behalf of the Department of Health found that 74 per cent of 49,000 people surveyed believed that the right place for a person to die was a hospital. Yet only 3 percent of these respondents stated that the dying person him- or herself would want to die in such a setting. Bluntly stated: hospital and hospice deaths are considerably more convenient for the family than they are for the person. Joanna Bourke, Prospect, April 2018 © 2016 Kwiple.com
Death Since last month the military has been using “ceremonial buglers” at some military funerals—a tape that can be inserted into a bugel and sounds like the real thing. “We've got 1,800 veterans dying each day, and only 500 buglers,”  said Lieutenant Coloned Cynthia Colin, a defense department spokeswoman. “We needed to do something to fill the void.” Gary Younge, November 7, 2003 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Death Swear to make them cut me open, so that I won't be buried alive. Last words of Frédéric Chopin © 2024 Kwiple.com
Death TAG GOES HERE Text on the tattoo of an arrow pointing to the big toe on a soldier's foot Described by Matt Taibbi in “Fort Apache, Iraq” © 2017 Kwiple.com
Death There will be no returns. Ludwig Wittgenstein, to a friend who congratulated him on his 62nd birthday by saying “Many happy returns” days before dying of cancer, as he knew he would © 2018 Kwiple.com
Death Until the eighteenth century, religions considered death and its aftermath central to the meaning of life. … The only modern ideology that still awards death a central role is nationalism. In its more poetic and desperate moments, nationalism promises that whoever dies for the nation will live forever in its collective memory. Yet this premise is so fuzzy that even most nationalists do not know what to make of it. Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens © 2016 Kwiple.com
Death  The vanity and presumption of governing  beyond the grave, is the most ridiculous and insolent of all tyrannies. Man has no property in man; neither has any generation a property in the generations which are to follow. Thomas Paine, Rights of Man  © 2020 Kwiple.com
Death Venki Ramakrishnan, former president of the Royal Society and a chemistry Nobel laureate, nurses a more fundamental objection to killing off death. While bacteria and cancer cells are in effect immortal, he explained in an interview recently, whole organisms are not. All animals die, suggesting that death co-evolved with sex: “[Reproduction] is like a lottery. You're tossing different combinations of genes out at life to see which one can do better but, in order to give them a shot, the older generation has to get out of the way.” Death, in other words, is the price we pay for sex. Financial Times, October 29, 2021 © 2021 Kwiple.com
Death The wise man will live as long as he ought, not as long as he can. Seneca, Moral Letters to Lucilious, Letter 70 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Death Woman Found Dead in Trunk Kept to Herself, Neighbors Say headline, New York Times, October 28, 2002 © 2016 Kwiple.com
Death You have to die from something. Ben Carson, when asked about being a doctor who eats fried chicken © 2015 Kwiple.com
A death in the family For the most part, in ways both oblique and and direct, the emphasis was on my grandfather's material success, his “killer” instinct, and his talent for saving a buck. Donald was the only one  to deviate from the script. In a cringe-inducing turn, his eulogy de- volved into a paean to his own greatness. It was so embarrassing that Maryanne [Trump's older sister] later told her son not to allow any of her siblings to speak at her funeral. Mary Trump, recalling the eulogy Donald Trump delivered at his father's funeral © 2020 Kwiple.com
Death threats In a world where the president goes on Twitter to call a woman “horseface” it seems pointless to call for “civility.” So let me suggest that we start with a lower bar, maybe one we could still hope to achieve: Let's stop threatening to kill one another. Bill McKibben, recipient of many death threats, New York Times, October 21, 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
< Death threats One email, sent on Jan. 2 to officials in nearly a dozen counties, threatened to bomb polling sites: “No one at these places will be spared unless and until Trump is guaranteed to be POTUS again.” Reuters, June 11, 2021, in an article about Georgia entitled: “Trump-inspired death threats are terrorizing election workers” © 2021 Kwiple.com
Death threats A society in which critics fear death is a society with fewer critics, and hence with fewer chances for change.  Bill McKibben, New York Times, October 21, 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
< Death threats “You actually deserve to hang by your goddamn, soy boy, skinny-ass neck,” said a woman in one voicemail, to Richard Barron, director of elections for Fulton County, GA. Reuters, June 11, 2021, in an article about Georgia entitled: “Trump-inspired death threats are terrorizing election workers” © 2021 Kwiple.com
Death with dignity Great stones they lay upon his chest until he plead aye or nay. … They say he gave them but two words. “More weight,” he says. And died. Elizabeth Proctor, about Giles Corey, who was “pressed” to death for refusing to plead “aye or nay” to the charge of witchcraft, in Arthur Miller's The Crucible © 2016 Kwiple.com
Deaths of despair These trends among less educated Americans — declines in wages, the quality and number of jobs, marriage, and community life — are central in instilling despair, spurring suicide and other self-inflicted harms, such as alcohol and drug abuse. … The real roots of the epidemic lie in the long-term malaise that began around 1970, when economic growth in the United States slowed, inequality began to rise, younger workers realized that they would never do as well as their parents had done, and those without high-level skills fell further behind. Anne Case and Angus Deaton © 2021 Kwiple.com
 
Deaths of despair The U.S. suicide rate has risen by a third since 1999; there are now more suicides than deaths on the roads each year, and there are two and a half times as many suicides as murders. In 2017 alone, there were 158,000 deaths of despair [deaths from suicide, drug overdoses and alchoholic liver disease], the equivalent of three fully loaded Boeing 737 MAX jets falling from the sky every day for a year. Anne Case and Angus Deaton, Foreign Affairs, March/April 2020 © 2021 Kwiple.com