Thoughts To Provoke Your Thoughts

On Death

What if it is for life's sake that we must die? In truth we are not individuals; and it is because we think ourselves such that death seems unforgivable. We are temporary organs of the race, cells in the body of life; we die and drop away that life may remain young and strong. If we were to live forever, growth would be stifled, and youth would find no room on earth. Death, like style, is the removal of rubbish, the circumcision of the superfluous. In the midst of death life renews itself immortally. - - - Will Durant

To claim that the souls of men will be happy or unhappy after the death of the body, is to pretend that man will be able to see without eyes, to hear without ears, to taste without a palate, to smell without a nose, and to feel without hands and without skin. Nations who believe themselves very rational, adopt, nevertheless, such ideas. - - - Jean Meslier

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of cancer cells. - - - Edward Abbey

Death is like taking a trip. We do not, however,  know where we are going; we only know that we shall never be coming back. It be would be great, however. if, after death, we could come back and live life over again. For my part, I'd like to continue writing my thoughts to provoke the thoughts of my college-educated friends, associates, and relatives; specially to provoke the thoughts of teachers in school and professors in college; also the thoughts of the politicians in government; and the thoughts of the theologians in church.

In the meantime, it is sad to see men growing only older; and not growing up instead and growing up wiser . - - - Poch Suzara