Note by Philosophors on Substack

“The man who fears death will never do anything worthy of a man who is alive,” as Seneca put it.

Now, when I myself hear that somebody is dead, I simply shrug and say what the Tralfamadorians say about dead people, which is ‘So it goes.’”

why are people, both young and old, disturbed by the prospect of dying? Some are disturbed because they fear what might come after death. Many more, though, are disturbed because they fear that they have mislived—that they have, that is, lived without having attained the things in life that are truly valuable. Death, of course, will make it impossi

D’après Oscar Wilde, « Vivre est la chose la plus rare au monde. La plupart des gens ne font qu’exister. »