Tao Te Ching

“A man is not completely born until he is dead... He who plucks out a tooth parts with it freely... he who quits the whole body parts at once with all pains an possibilities of pains and diseases capable of making him suffer... why should you and I be grieved at this since we are soon to follow?”

— Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790 CE
from Letter to a relative when his brother died, 1756