Autobiography of My Dead Brother Mortality Quotes

The novel opens on a funeral scene, and from Pastor Loving's words here, we understand that these funerals are really common. The word "tired" is super revealing about the regularity with which funerals are occurring.

Rise has a really cavalier attitude toward death through most of the book—it's just something that happens and there's nothing particularly special about it. He sure does change his tune in his own death scene, though.

At the ripe old age of fifteen, Jesse has been to so many of his peers' funerals that he finds them hard to differentiate. That's some pretty heavy stuff right there, Shmoopers.