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‘Who are they? Why are they running? Can they be coming at me? And why? To kill me? Me whom everyone is so fond of?’ He remembered his mother´s love for him, and his family’s, and his friends’, and the enemy’s intention to kill seemed impossible. ‘ But perhaps they may do it?’

Humans have a tendency to deem their own death improbable and inconcevable as if they were special of some sort.

‘what I say is that if it were possible to know what is beyond death, none of us would be afraid of it.’
‘Afraid or not, you can’t escape it anyhow.’
‘All the same, one is afraid!
‘One is afraid of the unknown, that’s what it is. Whatever we may say about the soul going to the sky… we know there is no sky but only an atmosphere.’

Socrates wouldn’t let this through…