Dying: Living
Kierkegaard: 'I should have perished, had I not perished.' (Journals of Soren Kierkegaard, 245)
C. S. Lewis: 'Die before you die. There is no chance after.' (Till We Have Faces, 279)
The Lord Jesus: 'Unless a grain of wheat falls to the earth and dies . . .' (John 12:24f)