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PHILOSOPHERS ON DEATH “The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.” Seneca, 64 A.D. “Life follows upon death. Death is the beginning of life. Who knows when the end is reached?” Chuang-Tsze, 400 B.C. “All the time you live, you steal it from death; it is at her charge.” Montaigne, 1580 “All flesh weareth out like a garment. For the covenant from the beginning is that thou shalt die the death.” Ben Sira, 190 B.C. “The first breath is the beginning of death.” Thomas Fuller, 1732 “Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.” Bishop Joseph Hall, 1608