Samuel Butler Quotes about Dying

Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime
TheWay of All Flesh ch. 24 (1903)
Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.
Samuel Butler (2016). “The Way of All Flesh”, p.28, Samuel Butler
Samuel Butler (1951). “Notebooks: Selections Edited by Geoffrey Keynes and Brian Hill”