For life be, after all, only a waitin’ for somethin’ else than what we’re doin’, and death be all that we can rightly depend on.
– Bram Stoker
Dracula, Chapter 6. Mr. Swales tells Mina that he senses his own death is not far off. But he is not afraid of dying. This foreshadows that he will indeed died soon, and after an encounter with Dracula.