Death
Overmyer died on March 22, 1996, in Duluth, Minnesota, in the crash of a Cirrus VK-30, a light aircraft he was testing. He was survived by his wife, Katherine, and three children.
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Famous quotes containing the word death:
“Lo! Death has reared himself a throne
In a strange city lying alone
Far down within the dim West,
Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best
Have gone to their eternal rest.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)
“It is not death therefore that is burdensome, but the fear of death.”
—Ambrose (c. 333–397)
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—Ernest Becker (1924–1974)