Death With Interruptions

by José Saramago

Anesthesia saved him from the supreme sacrilege of wanting to transfer the powers of death to a god more generally known as a giver of life.

Whether we like it or not, the one justification for the existence of all religions is death, they need death as much as we need bread to eat.

Because philosophy needs death as much as religions do, if we philosophize it’s in order to know that we will die, as monsieur de montaigne said, to philosophize is to learn how to die.