I suppose each of us has his own fantasy of how he wants to die. I would like to go out in a blaze of glory, myself, or maybe simply disappear someday, far out in the heart of the wilderness I love, all by myself, alone with the Universe and whatever God may happen to be looking on. Disappear - and never return. That's my fantasy. Edward Abbey
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These words were written by a man who was a war journalist during World War II. He was a reporter for the Chicago Daily News and the Europe edition of the New York Herald Tribune. His reports from Italy during World War II earned him a Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 1944, as well as a George Polk Award, and two Emmy Awards. In his novel, The Naked and the Dead, Norman Mailer describes the dying moments of John P.

Marquand as he asks his nurse to give him morphine before he dies. He asks for it to end "my life as I have lived it, alone".

Source: Postcards From Ed: Dispatches And Salvos From An American Iconoclast

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