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Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Aldous Huxley
Death, Dying, Lasts
Aldous Huxley (2015). “Time Must Have a Stop”, p.181, Random House

Dying is almost the least spiritual of our acts, more strictly carnal even than the act of love. There are Death Agonies that are like the strainings of the Costive at stool.

Aldous Huxley
Spiritual, Agony, Dying
Aldous Huxley (1983). “After Many a Summer Dies the Swan”, Harpercollins

Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Aldous Huxley
Death, Dying, Decay
Aldous Huxley (2000). “Complete Essays: 1930-1935”, Ivan R Dee

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