Most people do not mind dying, as long as that does not happen today.

Pain, unless it is physical, was sold to you (by your culture).

Some people are still alive only because they find being dead more boring than being alive.

To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world.For it is important that this takes place or there would be no expanding in businesses and other important industries to do with technologies.Gary F Evans...

The present is an eternal attempt to separate the past from the future.

…the trouble with oaths of the form, death before dishonor, is that eventually, given enough time and abrasion, they separate the world into two sorts of people: the dead, and the forsworn.