Except for the young or very happy, I can't say I am sorry for any one who dies.

Letter to Mrs. Bryan Waller Procter (26 November 1856), from The Letters and Private Papers of William Makepeace Thackeray, ed. Edgar F. Harden [Garland Publishing, Inc., 1994, ISBN 9-8240-3646-8], vol. 1, p. 763.