Death
On August 13, 2012, Roberts died of congestive heart failure, aged 95, according to her son. Celeste Holm, who played Ado Annie in the same original production of Oklahoma!, had recently predeceased Roberts, also at age 95.
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Famous quotes containing the word death:
“And death i think is no parenthesis”
—E.E. (Edward Estlin)
“During these fits of absolute unconsciousness I drank, God only knows how often or how much. As a matter of course, my enemies referred the insanity to the drink rather than the drink to the insanity. I had indeed, nearly abandoned all hope of a permanent cure when I found one in the death of my wife.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)
“Human life consists in mutual service. No grief, pain, misfortune, or “broken heart,” is excuse for cutting off one’s life while any power of service remains. But when all usefulness is over, when one is assured of an unavoidable and imminent death, it is the simplest of human rights to choose a quick and easy death in place of a slow and horrible one.”
—Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935)