"Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle." ― Edna Ferber Topic(s): Death More In Death "Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient."― Henry Ward Beecher "Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven."― Confucius "For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium."― Albert Camus