No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Life, like a child, laughs, shaking its rattle of death as it runs.

Death belongs to life as birth does The walk is in the raising of the foot as in the laying of it down.

It is the same life that emerges in joy through the dust of the earth into numberless waves of flower.

Let the dead have the immortality of fame, but the living the immortality of love.

That I exist is a perpetual surprise which is life.