[Hispanophile]

Because I see no practical benefit in personifying death, and because we have no real chance of avoiding it in the long run, I can do no better than repeat the answer I offered to a similar question earlier. Here it is:The intriguing thing about making statements about death is that there is absolutely no way of being proved wrong. Any assertion, however fanciful, about the afterlife will never be shown to be wrong. In my view, death -- as opposed to dying -- is not"experienced"at all. Epicurus was right: death is not to be feared, because while we are alive we are (obviously) not in death, and when we're dead we do not perceive ourselves as dead. The moral is that while we live we should busy ourselves with living; being dead (which is easy; it's dying that's hard) will take care of itself. ------