Status Updates From La mort d'Ivan Ilitch

This man can’t stand his ‘whiny’ wife that wants him home to help her when she was pregnant. Now only cares about bridge and social standings/parties/ impressing others. Seeming like he’s wealthy but he’s cookie cutter copy cat of actual rich people.

“…the mere fact of the death of a near acquaintance aroused, as usual, in all who heard of it the complacent feeling that ‘it is he who is dead and not I.’ Each one thought or felt, ‘Well, he’s dead and I’m alive!’”

I have to admit that when I think about someone’s death, I feel sad, but there is also this guilty relief, something like: “at least I still — probably — have some time.”