A dying man needs to die

"A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist."
Steward Alsop
"Truth sits upon the lips of dying men." - Matthew Arnold
"The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living." - W. H. Auden
"I do not believe that any man fears to be dead,
but only the stroke of death." - Francis Bacon
"When one by one our ties are torn,
and friend from friend is snatched forlorn;
When man is left alone to mourn,
oh! then how sweet it is to die!" - Anna Letitia Barabauld