Ray Kurzweil on Death

Take death for example

A great deal of our effort goes into avoiding it

We make extraordinary efforts to delay it

And often consider its intrusion a tragic event

Yet we?d find it hard to live without it

Death gives meaning to our lives

It gives importance and value to time

Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it

If death were indefinately put off

The human psyche would end up

Well like the gambler of the Twilight Zone episode