People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you've got to keep your feet warm.

Families survive, one way or another. You have a tie, a connection that exists long after death, through many lifetimes.

See, I have set before you this day life and good, death and evil... I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse therefore choose life.

Death in itself is nothing but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.

For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied.