I think that the dying pray at the last not "please,"....

“ I think that the dying pray at the last not "please," but "thank you," as a guest thanks his host at the door. Falling from airplanes the people are crying thank you, thank you, all the way down the air; and the cold carriages draw up for them on the rocks. ”

Annie Dillard

From : The Abundance: Narrative Essays Old and New