Jenny Downham Quotes

Corpses are more fit to be thrown out than is dung.

No matter who you are, you will be put abed at last with a shovel.

I haven't really thought about where to scatter my ashes when the time comes, but I doubt that it would be in space.

When I die, I hope they don't cremate me 'cuz I'll burn forever.

When I die.

Not a day has gone by in my life when I haven't thought about death.

When it's time to shuffle off this mortal coil, you leave your ashes to be composted.

But when once the earth has sucked up a dead man's blood, there is no way to raise him up.

A grave is such a quiet place.

Death is a mystery, and burial is a secret.

At night I closed my eyes and saw my bones threading the mud of my grave.

I don't want to hear about my death.

May you live to see the green grass growing over your grave.

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.

I have nothing against undertakers personally. It's just that I wouldn't want one to bury my sister.

I know that I am going to die, and I'm ready to do so.

I think about death every day - what it would be like, why it would happen to me. It would be humiliating to be afraid.

I love a cardboard coffin. Both Mummy and Daddy went off in cardboard coffins, painted - Daddy's was rifle green. Beautifully made.

I am not afraid of death, but would not want to die in some obscure or pointless way.

If you are going to lower me into the grave, and I feel something is wrong, I will get up.

Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Death always seems to be around me.

And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death.

What's going to happen when I die? I may be buried, or I may be cremated, I may give my body to science. I haven't decided yet.

I am scared of death.