"Life is a hecatomb. 59 million deaths a year. 1.9 per second. 158,857 per day. Since you read this paragraph, about twenty people have died in the world - more if you read slowly. Humanity is decimated in general indifference. Why do we tolerate this daily carnage on the pretext that it is a natural process? Before I thought of death once a day. Since I crossed the half-century mark, I think about it every minute. This book tells how I did it to stop stupidly dying like everyone else. It was out of the question to die without reacting."--Bernard Grasset.
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