And, before science had caught up with the legend, the legend had swallowed science and everything. - Richard Matheson

…Those who’ve marred their appearance in any way by their actions in life aren’t forced to witness that marring. If they were, they’d become self-conscious and be unable to concentrate on improving themselves.

With words I have knit my shroud and will bury myself therein

Still alive, he thought, heart beating senselessly, veins running without point, bones and muscles and tissue all alive and functioning with no purpose at all.