A premature death does not only rob one of the countless instances where one would have experienced pleasure, it also saves one from the innumerable instances where one would have experienced pain.

After a certain point, all natural bodily changes are for the worst.

Being alive does not necessarily lead to feeling alive.

Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.

Death would be an extremely bad thing like most of us paint it, if being dead were painful.

Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.

The death of a billionaire is worth more to the media than the lives of a billion poor people.

An expensive coffin does not decrease the deceased’s chances of going to hell.

Your relationship or marriage is dead or dying, if you almost always have to remind your partner to miss you (and/or they almost always have to remind you to miss them).