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title: "4 Making Death Quotes by 4 authors"
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> [“I was not good at the whole making-death-a-positive-transition thing. How could I? I wanted her to fight to the last breath. It…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kristin-hannah/i-was-not-good-at-the-whole-making-death-a-positive-transition-thing/)

[Kristin Hannah](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kristin-hannah/)

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> [“But mortification - literally, "making death" - is what life is all about, a slow discovery of the mortality of all that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henri-j-m-nouwen/but-mortification-literally-making-death-is-what-life-is-all-about-a/)

[Henri J.M. Nouwen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henri-j-m-nouwen/)

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> [I'm excited we can be part of making the death penalty history.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shane-claiborne/i-m-excited-we-can-be-part-of-making-the-death-penalty-history/)

[Shane Claiborne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shane-claiborne/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/09e/shane-claiborne-960_death_i-m-excited-we-can-be-part-of-making-the_1833632.png)

> [Monogamy is god's way of making death seem like a more reasonable option.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dov-davidoff/monogamy-is-god-s-way-of-making-death-seem-like-a-more-reasonable/)

[Dov Davidoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dov-davidoff/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5cd/dov-davidoff-1381_death_monogamy-is-god-s-way-of-making-death-se_2409144.jpg)

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