“Death is a strange thing. People live their whole lives as if it does not exist, and yet it's often one of the great motivations for living. Some of us, in time, become so conscious of it that we live harder, more obstinately, with more fury. Some need its constant presence to even be aware of its antithesis. Others become so preoccupied with it... See more

“Each day, we wake slightly altered, and the person we were yesterday is dead,” John Updike wrote, “so why ... be afraid of death, when death comes all the time?”