Death
McComas was being forced into retirement upon his 65th birthday in 1981. Saddened, he committed suicide two weeks earlier on October 15, 1981.
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Famous quotes containing the word death:
“In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman’s premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, “until death doth part.””
—Emma Goldman (1869–1940)
“So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy—and ... to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil.”
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)
“Life without a friend is death without a witness.”
—Spanish proverb.