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Annie Chase

  • “My Purpose Driven Death: How I Became One Lucky Stiff.”

    • Annie Chase,
    • book title about her self-directed death ()

  • “The choice isn't whether to die. No one is exempt from that One-Death-Per-Birth rule. I am that lucky stiff who got to choose some of the specific features of the experience.”

    • Annie Chase,
    • My Purpose Driven Death: How I Became One Lucky Stiff
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  • “Metaphorically speaking, I didn't want my approaching union with the debonair Mr. Oblivion to be solemnized in a hasty 2 a.m. shotgun wedding, with a few glum family members in their bathrobes looking on. I didn't want my one-and-only death to be a forcible abduction by a barely-glimpsed stalker who sneaked up and conked me on the head before dragging me off to his rude hovel.”

    • Annie Chase,
    • My Purpose Driven Death: How I Became One Lucky Stiff
    • ()

  • “I got inklings that my life's 'best if used by' date was becoming gradually decipherable ... I wanted to avoid suffering, loss of control over my body and life circumstances or allowing some outside 'expert' or a panel of them to dictate the terms of my experience of the all-important last stage of my life.”

    • Annie Chase,
    • My Purpose Driven Death: How I Became One Lucky Stiff
    • ()

Annie Chase, U.S. artist

(1946 - 2010)