FLOWERS
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992)
SEE YOU LATER...
ANY KIND OF REQUIEM
Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.
Epicurus (341 BC - 270 BC), from Diogenes Laertius
NOT ANYMORE...
Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?
Plato (427 BC - 347 BC), Dialogues, Phaedo
NEVER AGAIN
Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.
Aeschylus (525 BC - 456 BC), Agamemnon
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519)
NOPE
Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD), Meditations
As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.
Publilius Syrus (~100 BC), Moral Sayings, First Century B.C.
TOO LATE...
If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.
Samuel Goldwyn (1882 - 1974)