To live is to die.

How will you die? - http://www.quizfarm.com/test.php?q_id=8960&first=yes

“Your death will be by disappearing, probably a camping trip gone wrong or an evening hike you never returned from. Always remember that one guy who was hiking alone and got in a rock slide. He could have died, but he cut his own hand off to save himself. Don't end up like him (or worse, dead).”

Disappear 80%
Poison 67%
Suicide 53%
Accident 47%
Disease 47%
Gunshot 40%
Cut Throat 33%
Bomb 33%
Natural Causes 33%
Drowning 33%
Stabbed 33%
Suffocated 27%
Eaten 7%

And to continue around this morbid subject…

When will you die? - http://www.testimaa.com/testi.php?t=kuolema

“Kuolet 28.9.2055.”

And a second opinion, while I’m at it, from http://www.deathclock.com/ which says I’ll die on Friday, November 16, 2040 and, as I’m writing this, seconds slip through the narrow passage of the hourglass of my life, leaving me 1,058,596,525 seconds to live.

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Woody Allen:
"Death is one of the few things that can be done as easily as lying down. The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you."

T.S. Eliot:
“It is worth dying to find out what life is.”

Edgar Allan Poe:
“The boundaries between life and death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where one ends and where the other begins?”

Mark Twain:
“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”

Euripides:
“No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.“

Joshua Bruns:
“The trouble with quotes about death is that 99.999 percent of them are made by people who are still alive.”

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I continued to think of death even further and I ended up re-visiting one site where you can design a rudimentary version of your dream tombstone (http://www.hautakivi.net/index.php?sivu=suunnitele1), “rudimentary” being the operative word. So, I now have a sketch and the essential information of the tombstone I would like to have some day. It is quite unconventional, I’ve ever seen only one stone with a pentagram before. And I am well aware of the fact I’m not Wiccan, but then again it is the things the pentagram symbolises to me that matter. The bronze decoration also has to be specially made; it will be expensive but I will *not* tolerate a single Christian symbol above my grave. The people left behind hopefully are able to acknowledge that fact instead of hiding behind the excuse of saving my soul; I understand that people who are going to see the stone will be alive but what is above my grave is the one thing to represent me as what I was when I was alive, not what others wanted me to be.

But if you wish to have a less serious approach to the matter, write your own tombstone at http://journals.aol.com/johnmscalzi/bytheway/entries/2006/07/19/write-your-own-tombstone/6221. I would show you mine if I knew how to make it smaller and turn the picture into a file lepakkolaakso approves. I wrote "The FBI's most unwanted. F.M. Luder." What a surprise.