From: ‘How To Die: An Ancient Guide to the End of Life’ by Seneca, edited, translated, and introduced by James S. Romm: Quote: Just as we ignore the clippings from our beard and hair, just so, that divine sort of mind, as it prepares to leave its human form, judges that the...

From: ‘How To Die: An Ancient Guide to the End of Life’ by Seneca, edited, translated, and introduced by James S. Romm: Quote: Before I became old, I took care to live well; in old age I take care to die well. And dying well means dying willingly. (Epistle 61) Thought: Live well,...

From: ‘How To Die: An Ancient Guide to the End of Life’ by Seneca, edited, translated, and introduced by James S. Romm: Quote: Do you not realise that dying, too, is one of those duties of life? You’re not abandoning any duty. (Epistle 77.5.20) Thought: To depart well is to...

From: ‘How To Die: An Ancient Guide to the End of Life’ by Seneca, edited, translated, and introduced by James S. Romm: Quote: You poor man – you’re a slave to people, to things, to life (for a life lived without the courage to die is slavery). (Epistle 77.5-20)...

From: ‘How To Die: An Ancient Guide to the End of Life’ by Seneca, edited, translated, and introduced by James S. Romm: Quote: You’re afraid to die, but are you living now? (Epistle 77.5-20) Thought: Be more ‘afraid’ of not living well enough now… to not...

From: ‘How To Die: An Ancient Guide to the End of Life’ by Seneca, edited, translated, and introduced by James S. Romm: Quote: Living is not a great matter… To die honourably, prudently, bravely – now that is great. – Tullius Marcellinus  Thought: To also...

From: ‘How To Die: An Ancient Guide to the End of Life’ by Seneca, edited, translated, and introduced by James S. Romm: Quote: We must prepare for death before life. (Epistle 61) Thought: Live before you die. Die before you die...

From: ‘How To Die: An Ancient Guide to the End of Life’ by Seneca, edited, translated, and introduced by James S. Romm: Quote: Let’s compose our minds such that we want whatever the situation demands, and in particular that we contemplate our end without sadness. (Epistle...

From: ‘How To Die: An Ancient Guide to the End of Life’ by Seneca, edited, translated, and introduced by James S. Romm: Quote: I make it so that my day is a small version of my whole life… I look upon it as though it could be my last. (Epistle 61) Thought: Live each day...

From: ‘How To Die: An Ancient Guide to the End of Life’ by Seneca, edited, translated, and introduced by James S. Romm: Quote: There’s only one way we can say that the life we live is long; if it is enough. (To Marcia 21.1-3) Thought: Live fully and thus enough, and life is...