Status Updates From Shaking Hands with Death

Therefore I am a humanist and would rather believe that we are a rising ape, not a falling angel.

As Death says in one of my own books, most men don’t fear death, they fear those things - the knife, the shipwreck, the illness, the bomb - which precede, by microseconds if you’re lucky, and many years if you’re not, the moment of death.

I’ve read this before as part the collection A Slip of The Keyboard, but it was well worth reading again.