I believe that there is some incredible mystery about it. What does life mean: firstly coming-to-be, then finally ceasing-to-be? We find ourselves here in this wonderful rich and vivid conscious experience and it goes on through life, but is that the end?... Is this present life all to finish in death or can we have hope that there will be a further meaning to be discovered?

– Karl Popper         

Men fear Death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.

– Francis Bacon          

Human kind cannot bear very much reality.

– T. S. Eliot