Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime - Samuel Butler

An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.

Embryos think with each stage of their development that they have now reached the only condition that really suits them. This, they say, must certainly be their last, inasmuch as its close will be so great a shock that nothing can survive it. Every change is a shock; every shock is a pro tanto death. What we call death is only a shock great enough to destroy our power to recognize a past and a present as resembling one another.

Morality is the custom of one’s country and the current feeling of one’s peers. Cannibalism is moral in a cannibal country.