Fight Club - Chloe

“ Chloe was the genuine article.
Chloe was the way Joni Mitchell's skeleton would look if you made it smile and walk around a party being extra special nice to everyone. Picture Chloe's popular skeleton the size of an insect, running through the vaults and galleries of her innards at two in the morning. Her pulse a siren overhead, announcing: Prepare for death in ten, in nine, in eight seconds. Death will commence in seven, six . . .
At night, Chloe ran around the maze of her own collapsing veins and burst tubes spraying hot lymph. Nerves surface as trip wires in the tissue. Abscesses swell in the tissue around her as hot white pearls.
The overhead announcement, prepare to evacuate bowels in ten, in nine, eight, seven.
Prepare to evacuate soul in ten, in nine, eight.
Chloe's splashing through the ankle-deep backup of renal fluid from her failed kidneys.
Death will commence in five.
Five, four.
Four.
Around her, parasitic life spray paints her heart.
Four, three.
Three, two.
Chloe climbs hand-over-hand up the curdled lining of her own throat.
Death to commence in three, in two.
Moonlight shines in through the open mouth.
Prepare for the last breath, now.
Evacuate.
Now.
Soul clear of body.
Now.
Death commences.
Now.
Oh, this should be so sweet, the remembered warm jumble of Chloe still in my arms and Chloe dead somewhere.
Oh, this should be so sweet. For two years, Chloe's been crying in my arms during hug time, and now she's dead, dead in the ground, dead in an urn, mausoleum, columbarium. Oh, the proof that one day you're thinking and hauling yourself around, and the next, you're cold fertilizer, worm buffet. This is the amazing miracle of death, and it should be so sweet if it weren't for, oh, that one.”
- Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

Death Quotes

“If one lives intensely, the time comes when sleep means bliss. If one loves intensity, the time comes when death seems bliss.... The life I want is a life I could not endure for eternity. It is a life of love and intensity, suffering and creation, that makes life worth while and death welcome. There is no other life I prefer. Neither should I like not to die.... For most of us death does not come soon enough. Lives are spoiled and made rotten by the sense that death is distant and irrelevant. One lives better when one expects to die, say, at forty, when one says to oneself long before one is twenty: whatever I may accomplish, I should be able to accomplish it by then; and what I have not done by then, I am not likely to do ever. One cannot count on living until one is forty - or thirty- but it makes for a better life if one has a rendezvous with death. Not only love can be deepened and made more intense and impassioned by the expectation of impending death; all life is enriched by it.”
- Walter Kauffman, Faith Of A Heretic

"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work, I want to achieve it through not dying."
- Woody Allen

"Violence is as American as cherry pie."
- Rap Brown

"Anyone can stop a man's life, but no one his death; a thousand doors open to it."
- Luscius Annaeus Seneca

"War does not determine who is right - only who is left."
- Bertrand Russell

"Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow."
- Horace