I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books. - Isaac Asimov
I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.
The world's religions, for all their parochialism, did supply a kind of consolation for this great ache... This shattering recognition of our mortality is at the root of far more mental illness than I suspect even psychiatrists are aware. - Stanley Kubrick
