Mortality

by Christopher Hitchens

“Until you have done something for humanity,” wrote the great American educator Horace Mann, “you should be ashamed to die.”

Death has this much to be said for it: You don’t have to get out of bed for it. Wherever you happen to be They bring it to you—free.

one finds that every passing day represents more and more relentlessly subtracted from less and less. In other words, the process both etiolates you and moves you nearer toward death.