I've always been scared to death of pain - afraid, even, to think of it.

Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.

At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life.

Loved. You can't use it in the past tense. Death does not stop that love at all.

Have an earnestness for death and you will have life.