Remembering I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart - Steve Jobs, http://m.news.com/2166-12_3-10271908-71.html
No one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good - Plato
Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting "holy shit..what a ride!" - George Carlin
I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it - Mark Twain
Everything we say about death is actually about life - Kyoki Mori http://www.obit-mag.com/articles/inevitable-conclusion
Death is beautiful when seen to be a law, and not an accident. It is as common as life - Henry David Thoreau
Behind every man now alive stand 30 ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living - Arthur C Clarke http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16870579
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At least until the transhumanist dream becomes a reality, which according to one leading modern philosopher may be never, we will cling on to whatever we can that reminds us of our loved ones.
Who knows when it happens, but it happens. Suddenly you realise that you're switching from saying ?Hi? to saying ?Bye.? And it's a full-time job: death. You really have to wrench your head around to look in the other direction, because death's so apparent now, and it wasn't apparent before. You were intellectually persuaded that you were going to die, but it wasn't a reality - Martin Amis