You cannot avoid dying, but you can avoid dying intestate ; therefore make your will, and forget that you are mortal. Rational provision against misfortune is a totally different thing from fear ; it is a part of wisdom, whereas all fear is slavish.
Source: On Education, especially in early childhood, 1926, by Bertrand Russell
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