may I join the choir invisible

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death. - Thomas Browne, An Essay on Death
The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it. - Doris Day
Death is a low chemical trick played on everybody except sequoia trees. - J.J. Furnas
Oh, may I join the choir invisible
Of those immortal dead who live again.
- George Eliot, The Choir Invisible
Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly. - Elbert Hubbard