“We all die,” I said. “Now you’d have thought an intelligent species like us, faced with something like that, we’d devote all our energy and our cleverness and all our money and spare time to finding a cure for death. But we don’t. We accept it. By the time we’re thirteen years old we just don’t think about it. We put it out of our minds and turn our attention to other things. If we didn’t, we wouldn’t be able to function. And that’s what the Senate and the service have done.”
