Suffering is bad I agree and death is likely to be a release from that, but what I meant was how do you know that death isn't that bad? I thought you might have had a near death experience or somesuch?
Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
— Benjamin Franklin, in a letter to Jean-Baptiste Leroy, 1789
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