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• Oh what a fate worse than death it is to be strapped to the back of a Wookiee! -- C-3PO
• Immortality -- a fate worse than death. -- Edgar A. Shoaff
• A fate worse than death: to be married alive.
• A faith worse than death is better than death!
• Homer: Now, sweetie, don't worry about a thing. I'll teach you to comb it over so no one can tell.
  Just like my hair! [Marge imagines herself with a Homer-esque comb-over, and breaks into sobs] -- A fate worse than death?...
• It's a matter of life after death. After he's dead, I have a life. -- Mrs White, _Clue_