Benjamin Hickmann

“...when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, present, and future, always have existed, always will exist.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“The irony of man's condition is that the deepest need is to be free of the anxiety of death and annihilation; but it is life itself which awakens it, and so we must shrink from being fully alive.”
― Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death