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I want to be all used up when I die.

I've worked very hard to become comfortable with how death works and why it happens. I now know that death isn't out to get me.

Make a living will. Talk about it. Death is going to happen to everybody. Write it down. Even if you write it on a piece of paper at home and have your family witness it, you need to write it down.

I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.

My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.

It is long since I could have adventured on eternity, through God's mercy and Christ's merits; but death remained somewhat terrible, and that now is taken away; and now death is no more to me, but to cast myself into my husband's arms, and to lie down with Him.

Dealing with death is there forever, really, you know, because we all have to face it.

I'm not great at dealing with death, I have to say. I find death very hard: my mum, my dad, Sid Vicious. I'm not a monster; I feel it and it scares me. One death at a time, please, is all my heart will bear.

I accept the dying process. I would just like to be as healthy as I possibly can at each step and phase along the way.