"Our ultimate aim shall be the construction of a craft that will convey us into death in such a way that we may, if not live, then at least persist. With famine, war, disease and asteroid impact threatening to greatly speed up the universal passage towards oblivion, mankind's sole chance of survival lies in its ability, as yet unsynthesised, to die in a new, imaginative ways. Let us deliver ourselves over utterly to death, not in desperation but rigorously, creatively eyes and mouth wide open so that they may be filled from the deep wells of the Unknown." (Manifesto of the International Necronautical Society: http://necronauts.org/)
"There are those who do not realise that one day we all must die.
But those who do realise this settle their quarrels." (Dhammapada v. 286 )
"Death carries off a man busy picking flowers with an besotted mind, like a great flood does a sleeping village."
Put down your glass Aubrey!
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