Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people. – Theodor Adorno
The experiences associated with death were seen as visits to important dimensions of reality that deserved to be experienced, studied, and carefully mapped. – Stanislav Grof
The answer, of course, in the mouth of a Christian teacher is that in Christianity alone is there both present joy and future hope. – Mary Augusta Ward