Day Quote by David Fahrenthold

The task of tracking deaths for the federal bureaucracy is an enormous one; about 2.5 million Americans die each year. Federal officials say the…

— David Fahrenthold

Death is a convention, a certification to the end of pain, something for the vital statistics book, not binding upon anyone but the keepers…

— Wallace Stegner

When someone dies, you have to do many things that mark it: telling other people, getting rid of the body, writing to the bank,…

— Michael Rosen

“Not only may you not enter the state without certification: you are, in the eyes of the state, not dead until you are certified…

— J.M. Coetzee

Life insurance companies are failing to pay out death benefits when they know the person is dead, and they're claiming they don't know.

— Lesley Stahl

A number of cases have been reported in which a dying individual has a vision of a person about whose death he or she…

— Stanislav Grof

in California death is one of the most successfully kept secrets there is. If you doubt this, try to find a cemetery.

— Sheila Ballantyne

The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.

— Mark Twain

We have 62 counties in New York State and each has its own system of death investigation.

— Michael Baden

I get involved if a problem comes up after the death has been investigated by the local authority.

— Michael Baden

There are about as many ways to be dead as there are to be alive. People linger in different ways, both publicly and privately.

— Anne Enright

“Writing the forenames and family names of the victims down, with no other detail of age, or place, would fill twenty books. To begin…

— Philip Gourevitch