Abstract
For death is one or other of two things. It is either complete annihilation, when the dead man has no sensation of anything; or, as we are told, a change of life and migration of the soul from one world to another … And if death means complete unconsciousness, like a sleep in which the slumbering man sees not even a dream, then it would be a marvellous thing … But if on the other hand death is like making a journey to another land, and there is truth in the stories that all the dead dwell there, what greater boon could there be … than this?