"I didn’t attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it." ― Mark Twain Topic(s): Death Tags: attend, funeral More From Mark Twain "Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside." "It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare." "The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice." More In Death "Death doesn’t frighten me; now I can think peacefully of ending a long life."― Jeanne Calment "The longer your life goes on, the more death you face."― Patrick Swayze "It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood – no more – to man, and love to a woman is life or death."― Ella Wheeler Wilcox