After a suicide attempt I'm told I shouldn't have lived through, and two very good high school friends dead by the time I was 27, I have become comfortable with death. Death sucks, but it no longer has that emotional impact when I hear that someone died, because that's what people do. They die.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
