An odd connection?  Why connect the desire to live forever with actively ending life?  Consider the follow passage from a book titled, The View From A Hearse: A Christian View of Death, by Joseph Bayly.

One of my early memories is of being led into my grandmother’s room in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, to give her a final kiss. She was dying, I had been told, “so be quiet and behave.” That scene impresses me today with its Old Testament quality. Grandma, an imposing person, was conscious, slightly raised on a bolster, her white hair braided and carefully arranged on the quilt she had made as a young woman.