Healthy people are those who live in healthy homes on a healthy diet in an environment equally fit for birth growth work healing and dying... Healthy people need no bureaucratic interference to mate give birth share the human condition and die.

Between our birth and death we may touch understanding As a moth brushes a window with its wing.

Instead of joyfully looking forward to my birth my mother began systematically preparing for her own death. She was fatalistic.

Life is like a very short visit to a toyshop between birth and death.

We should weep for men at their birth not at their death.

In Goddess religion death is not feared but is understood to be a part of life followed by birth and renewal.

Our birth is nothing but our death begun As tapers waste the moment they take fire.

I now bid farewell to the country of my birth - of my passions - of my death a country whose misfortunes have invoked my sympathies - whose factions I sought to quell - whose intelligence I prompted to a lofty aim - whose freedom has been my fatal dream.

I think one thing that kids who grow up on farms really have going for them is they have exposure to death and birth in a totally different way. I think it takes away a little bit of the mystery and a little bit of the fear and I do wish I had that. And I wish I was able to grow my own food.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.