What is death?

May3, 2023.

Go over now all those you have known yourself, one after the other: one man follows a friend’s funeral, and is then laid out himself, and another follows him, and all in a brief space of time.The conclusion of this? You should always look on human life as short and cheap. Yesterday sperm: tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So one should pass through this tiny fragment of time in tune with nature, and leave it gladly, as an olive might fall when ripe, blessing the earth which bored it and grateful to the tree, which gave it growth.