No one can obtain from the Pope a dispensation for never dying.
Death Quotes
The poets dominate here. Edward Young, Longfellow and Seneca are tied for the most entries, with Tennyson, Pope and Byron close behind. A few lines are better known than their authors. Samuel Johnson’s remark that when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight it concentrates his mind wonderfully comes from Boswell’s Life of Johnson (1791). Dryden’s “Death in itself is nothing; but we fear / To be we know not what, we know not where” is from Aureng-Zebe (1676).
The line most often credited to Stalin, that one death is a tragedy and a million is a statistic, is flagged as misattributed. Wikiquote traces a version of it to a French satirical paper in 1924, where a diplomat says it in what is probably an invented anecdote. It was pinned on Stalin by a newspaper columnist in 1947, with no evidence offered.
Death is free from the restraint of Fortune; the earth takes everything which it has brought forth.
The knell, the shroud, the mattock, and the grave,
The deep damp vault, the darkness and the worm.
Is Death important? No. Everything that happens before Death is what counts.
It is not death that a man should fear, but never beginning to live.
Cremation is preferable to burial as a way of disposing of corpses.
And they die
An equal death,—the idler and the man
Of mighty deeds.