WOW! Thanks for the research!
When I complete an Ironman and get my tattoo... I think I will have it written near by, "What a ride".
I always say, I would rather die doing something I love versus withering away in a bed. Some people think it's tragic when someone dies riding a bike... SCUBA diving...etc... but I think that if that person died doing what they loved, it was a life lived.
"Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather, to skid in broadside thoroughly used-up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming: WOW WHAT A RIDE!!!!"