A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. There was a time when you were not: that gives us no concern. Why then should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be? To die is only to be as we were before we were born. -William Hazlitt, essayist (1778-1830) .............. There isn't a time when we were not, except the time when life on earth didn't exist. Our genes have existed for millions of years in many creatures. And if we leave offspring, our genes will go on into the future. But of course regarding existence as individual conscious beings, Hazlitt was quite right. And with all our science and technology, we can't defeat death. Those people who have themselves frozen are deceiving themselves. Even if they can be thawed out alive, isn't it better to be raised incorruptible than thawed out soggy? (No, I don't believe in the Resurrection of the Body. Or conscious life after death).