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Death... Death has become a middle-class business. There's no future in it.

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7 seconds sound clip from the The Loved One (1965) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 01:50:42 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- You have an astonishing purity. It's a quality I've always found exceedingly attractive in the young.

- It was just madness... what he said, wasn't it? Just madness and evil?

- Let me assure you that there will most definitely be a place for you, regardless of any change in operation, beginning with a stiff boost in salary.

- But Whispering Glades?

- Yes, yes. That was all very well in the life of its time, but now, all things must change. We're a nation on the move.

- Death... Death has become a middle-class business. There's no future in it.

- Soon, there shall rise from these grounds a self-contained city of glass and alloy, for our senior citizens.

- What about the loved ones?

- To the stars, my dear. In a celestial service befitting this grand space age of ours.

- The loved ones shall soar about the heavens in an orbit of eternal grace.

- Resurrection now!

- Xanadu falls, Shadowland, Poets' corner... those are eternal.

[...]

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However, look, we can offer you a special new service, whereby the remains are placed inside a rocket, and fired into space.
Above the love of the flesh, dear brethren, there is a higher love, a purer love, a Fuller love, a love which can only be described as true love.
The grave's a fine and private place... But none, I think... Do there embrace.
As there are many people of delicate sensibilities, with a natural reluctance to expose their loved ones to anything savoring of immodesty, I've been considering the advantages of training a female embalmer.
There's got to be a way to get those stiffs off my property.
The Loved One (1965) Sound Clip

The Loved One (1965) poster

Hear memorable quotes from "The Loved One" in this collection of sound bites from the black comedy film based on Evelyn Waugh's novel.

Actors: Robert Morse (Dennis Barlow), Anjanette Comer (Aimée Thanatogenos), Jonathan Winters (Harry and Wilbur Glenworthy), Rod Steiger (Mr. Joyboy), John Gielgud (Sir Francis Hinsley), Lionel Stander (The Guru Brahmin)

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