Quotes about "Death & Mortality"

Any effort to make the death penalty speedier and less costly - more 'efficient' - will inevitably make it less just. ”

For me, the ethical arguments that resonate strongest are the ones that oppose the death penalty. ”

Some people hate funerals. I find them comforting. They hit the pause button on life and remind us that it has an end. Every eulogy reminds me to deepen my dash, that place on the tombstone between our birth and our death. ”

My nation wants the death penalty. That is the decision of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. ”

The End of Men' was an incendiary title, but the actual book was very sympathetic to men. It was very invested in a lot of the challenges men are facing with unemployment and the economy changing because of technology. ”

For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a table which we did not spread. ”

I felt the question of the afterlife was the black hole of the personal universe: something for which substantial proof of existence had been offered but which had not yet been explored in the proper way by scientists and philosophers. ”

I'm not afraid of death at all. ”

The subject of death is taboo. We feel, perhaps only subconsciously, that to be in contact with death in any way, even indirectly, somehow confronts us with the prospect of our own deaths, draws our own deaths closer and makes them more real and thinkable. ”

Life and death matters, yes. And the question of how to behave in this world, how to go in the face of everything. Time is short and the water is rising. ”