Keith, your posts suggest an aversion to life and death in almost equal measure, which strikes me as odd. As you seem to find life so disagreeable don't you in some way, at least, rejoice in the prospect of it coming to an end? Unfashionable as it might to think this way I've long regarded death as life's greatest consolation because I can't easily imagine anything worse than having to go on and on and on for ever. The process of dying might be awful but what could one fear in death itself? Mark Twain put it well: “I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.”
