Old persons are sometimes as unwilling to die

Death a friend that alone can bring the peace his treasures cannot purchase, and remove the pain his physicians cannot cure. - Mortimer Collins
Death is patiently making my mask as I sleep. Each morning I awake to discover in the corners of my eyes the small tears of his wax. - Philip Dow
For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity. - William Penn
Paradise - I see flowers
from the cottage where I lie.
~Yaitsu's death poem, 1807
Old persons are sometimes as unwilling to die as tired-out children are to say good night and go to bed. - Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu