Two quotes come to mind when I consider death:
"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome."
-Isaac Asimov
Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.
-Epicurus
On the other hand, what I am most afraid of is facing a slow death like my grandfather. He is one of the men I most respect. He was extremely successful, intelligent and experienced. Now all he says is "When I was in the war and death was all around me, my greatest wish was to have to chance to live out my life, to die an old man. My wish was granted and I regret it deeply."
I really dont know how to take that. He was very young in the war (Spanish Civil War). It seems like he doesn't care about anything he did, the things he saw, the people he loved and the family he founded. He just wishes he was dead, even if it means not living most of his life.
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