Obviously this is meant to be funny, and occasionally it is, as when an aggrieved Gideon insists on dying of tuberculosis in the middle of a scene.
And if we're to actively insist on dying when our natural time comes, and to go gracefully into the great beyond, whatever that might entail, then we must successfully resolve our fear of dying.
If you're a girl and you insist on dying your hair, dye it a natural-looking color.
She insisted on transcending labels.
In his final years, Nureyev insisted on literally, excruciatingly, dying before our eyes, giving performances so ragged and inept that audiences whistled and demanded refunds — which suggests something besides simple flouting of the cardinal rule that performers should know when to retire gracefully.
"When my sister was dying, she insisted on an open casket at her wake," Roberts says.
Even when he was dying, he insisted on being formally dressed, "I will not travel in my pyjamas".
Those who insist on using the dying as experimental subjects and those who advocate "mercy killings" see death as abnormal and dying patients as subhuman.
A few weeks later, when her father died, Mr. Weinstein insisted on coming to the funeral.
