->  DW> I'm not afraid of being dead. I was dead for billions 
->  DW> of years before my birth, and nothing awful happened 
->  DW> to me during that time. 
  
-> Nice one ... I apologise in advance for stealing it.... 
   
 DW> I stole it from my friend Ken Tucker (who sometimes contributes to
 DW> the  science-based Usenet newsgroups). I have no idea where he got
 DW> it from.    

i just did a quick google for the first line, the first sentence and the
last part of the first line and didn't find anything that was exactly the
same... several that were very similar, though...

it's been added to my random quotes on my webpage with attribution to you ;)

)\/(ark