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Her cells live on, while her story remained largely untold.

From The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

We all have our time to die.

From The Sandman by Neil Gaiman

The act of dying is one of the acts of life.

From The Source of Self-Regard by Toni Morrison

Death is a part of life, yet it remains a taboo subject.

From Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach

In the end, you will be just another person who has passed through this world.

From The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.

From A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

Death is not the end; it is the end of a particular way of being.

From Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach

We are all just one accident away from being a cadaver.

From Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach

You act like mortals in all that you fear, and like immortals in all that you desire.

From On the Shortness of Life by Seneca

Death is nature’s way of telling you to slow down.

From Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach

When you think about it, we are all just bags of organs.

From Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach

It’s a hard thing to go through life knowing that you’re going to die and not knowing how.

From The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

A person doesn’t die when he should but when he can.

From One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

We’re all just a bunch of cells, and it’s all going to end up in the ground.

From Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach

Human bodies are remarkably adaptable, in life and in death.

From Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach

Authentic existence involves confronting our own mortality.

From Being and Time by Martin Heidegger

Their short lives are filled with intense experiences.

From The Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery

You get what anybody gets - you get a lifetime.

From The Sandman by Neil Gaiman

The forgotten room reminded us of the fragility of life.

From The Forgotten Room: Inside a Public Patient Hospital by Dan Baum

The human body is the only machine that breaks down and doesn’t have a warranty.

From The Body: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson

We can learn a lot from the way our bodies decompose.

From Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach