Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly in the remark, "You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing."
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
Is there life before death?
You can learn as much - or more - from one glance at a private space as you can from hours of exposure to a public face.
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again.
It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.