Samuel Butler: We do not know what death is. If we know so little about life which we have experienced, how shall be know about death w

We do not know what death is. If we know so little about life which we have expe — Samuel Butler

We do not know what death is. If we know so little about life which we have experienced, how shall be know about death which we have not — and in the nature of things never can?

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