A few words about death

I fell down the Google hold the other day and found a few words from Oregon's late Gov. Tom McCall on the subject of death:

You're terminal from the minute you arrive. You've been going to go ever since you got here. Still it is unacceptable when the calendar hints that the prospect has lost its open-endedness. Despair strikes you and what was vaguely inevitable is barely down the road anymore.

That about sums it up for me.