We human beings are strange creatures and still reserve the right to think for ourselves.
I don't think people ever were free of fear of death, but clinging to life and being so unprepared for it is a modern experience.
To do more, is not necessarily to do better.
Almost anyone you talk to will say, 'I don't want to die plugged into machines.
Let's spend less on trying to fix the unfixable in the last five years of life and spend more supporting people so that they can stay the least disabled as they possibly can, the most independent as they possibly can, and keep them at home.
I want people to suffer less, and I think it's possible.
Very few of us are succeeding in giving our parents the ideal death.
But maybe it's better to go after something, and not get it, than to not even try.
You and I can turn and look at the silent river and wait. We know the current is there, hidden; and there are comings and goings from miles away that hold the stillness exactly before us. What the river says, that is what I say.
Art could be said to be a symbol of the universe, being linked with that absolute spiritual truth which is hidden from us in our positivistic, pragmatic activities.
Prudence is a presumption of the future, contracted from the experience of time past.