169. Despite these miseries, man wishes to be happy, and only wishes to be happy, and cannot wish not to be so. But how will he set about it? To be happy he would have to make himself immortal; but, not being able to do so, it has occurred to him to prevent himself from thinking of death. - Pascal
Death is not a welcoming conversation topic. Many of us boast of a mostly casual relationship with death, even though deaths happen everyday. There is a steady stream of the departed. This can be proven by just watching the local news. But we have just been mostly carrying on. I have been recently reading Pascal's Pensees. Pascal rightly notes that death is the ultimate universal no one can deny, but many run away from in the form of pleasurable distractions.
