Subject: Death (Page 16)

You be good. See you tomorrow. I love you.

African Grey Parrot (1976 – 2007) subject of a thirty-year experiment by animal psychologist Irene Pepperberg

In keeping with Channel 40's policy of bringing you the latest in blood and guts and in living color, you are going to see another first –- attempted suicide.

(1944 – 1974) American television news reporter

I thought it was in terribly bad taste for him to die when he did.

(1942 – ) English comic, actor (Monty Python's Flying Circus)

The best way to get praise is to die.

Death is nature’s way of saying “Howdy.”

Either this man is dead or my watch has stopped.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering… and it’s all over much too soon.

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

I want to die like my father, quietly, in his sleep – not screaming and terrified like his passengers.

(1928 – 2003) English entertainer

I hate going to funerals because I’m not a mourning person.

(1946 – ) American comedian, actor & voice actor

The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

(1900 – 1993) American actress

Boy, fetch my fiddle.

(1671 – 1734) Scottish folk hero

No, but comfortable enough to die.

(1717 – 1780) Empress of Austria & Hungary

I was married twice; my first wife died and my second one wouldn't.

(1955 – ) American comedian

I understand life isn’t fair, but why couldn’t it just once be unfair in my favor?

American comedian

It is hovering and it's not an aircraft.

(c.1958 – presumed dead in 1978 ) Australian pilot

Okay, I won’t.

(1935 – 1977) American singer

Eulogy: Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.

And always remember the last words of my grandfather, who said, “A truck!”

(1956 – ) American comedian

Patriotism: The willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons dreamed up by politicians.

People Who Don’t Know They’re Dead

The Senate seems like the place where smart people go to die.

(1962 – ) American political satirist, writer, television host & comedian