Death
Six months after leaving the presidency, he died in a suspicious aircraft incident near Fortaleza. The aircraft in which he was flying is said to have been shot down accidentally by a "Shooting star" of the Brazilian Air Force.
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Famous quotes containing the word death:
“I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him meerly seise me, and onely declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwrack, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotencie might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.”
—John Donne (c. 1572–1631)
“Oh! death will find me long before I tire
Of watching you.”
—Rupert Brooke (1887–1915)
“...here he is, fully alive, and it is hard to picture him fully dead. Death is thirty-three hours away and here we are talking about the brain size of birds and bloodhounds and hunting in the woods. You can only attend to death for so long before the life force sucks you right in again.”
—Helen Prejean (b. 1940)